It is the nature of love to love as much as we feel we are loved and to love whatever the one we love loves.

Heaven is along the way.

You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.

A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.

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?

From self-knowledge flows the stream of humility, which never seizes on mere report, nor takes offense at anything, but bears every insult, every loss of consolation, and every sorry, from whatever direction they may come, patiently, with joy.

He will provide the way and the means, such as you could never have imagined. Leave it all to Him, let go of yourself, lose yourself on the Cross, and you will find yourself entirely.