St. Bernard of Clairvaux On Love
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Posted by Chelsea – August 20th, 2009
I thought this was utterly beautiful. From today’s Office by St. Bernard of Clairvaux:
Love is a great thing so long as it continually returns to its fountainhead, flows back to its source, always drawing from there the water which constantly replenishes it. Of all the movements, sensations and feelings of the soul, love is the only one in which the creature can respond to the Creator and make some sort of similar return however unequal though it be. For when God loves, all He desires is to be loved in return…
It is true that the creature loves less because she is less. But if she loves with her whole being, nothing is lacking where everything is given.