Consider God's charity. Where else have we ever seen someone who has been offended voluntarily paying out his life for those who have offended him?

Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God's sake.

Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there.

O unfathomable depth! O Deity eternal! O deep ocean! What more could You give me than to give me Yourself?

O my soul, what are you doing? Are you not aware that God sees you always? You can never hide yourself from His sight. O Father, have pity on us because we are blind and in darkness. Drive out the darkness and give me light. Melt the ice of my self-love and kindle in me the fire of Your charity.

This my goodness does to endow the souls of the just more fully with spiritual riches when for my love they are stripped of material goods because they have renounced the world and all its pleasures and even their own will. These are the ones who fatten their souls, enlarging them in the abyss of my charity. Then I become their spiritual provider. The Holy Spirit becomes their servant.

You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!