He has never left you.It is justthat your soul is so vastthat just likethe earth in its innocence,it may think,"I do not feel my lover's warmthagainst my face rightnow."But look, dear,is not the sun reaching down its armsand always holding a continentin its light?God cannot leave us.It is just that our soul is so vast,we do not always feel His lipsupon theveil.

Penance to be sure must be used as a tool, in due times and places, as need may be. If the flesh, being too strong, kicks against the spirit, penance takes the rod of discipline, and fast, and the cilice of many buds, and mighty vigils; and places burdens enough on the flesh, that it may be more subdued. But if the body is weak, fallen into illness, the rule of discretion does not approve of such a method.

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

Love transforms one into what one loves.

Love does not stay idle.

Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.

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?