In what does the praise of God consist, if not in a lamentation of the soul that it can never praise Him as it desires? And the desires, devotion, prayer and good will that a soul has to do good, all this is a sorrowful lamentation, and when I come to supply for it Myself, I heal it of all its wounds. . . . Even if you were perfectly faithful to Me, you should infinitely prefer that My love should repair your negligences rather than that you should do it, so that My love may have the honour and glory.”
Jesus to St. Mechtild
The Love of the Sacred Heart
