Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.

Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others.

Fasting detaches you from this world. Prayer reattaches you to the next world.

Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God.

The workmen in a factory may have a shadowy, unknown absentee "employer" - the thousands of individual owners of stock - whom "management" represents and tries to please by extra dividends. The workman's livelihood is at the disposition of strangers who make a single demand of their representatives: higher profits.

The higher the love, the more demands will be made on us to conform to that ideal.

The Rosary is the best therapy for these distraught, unhappy, fearful, and frustrated souls, precisely because it involves the simultaneous use of three powers: the physical, the vocal, and the spiritual, and in that order.