Lord, the fire of Your love exceeds all human desires!
We seek, but perhaps not in a manner that might best unite us with You. As Bonaventure writes in Chapter 7:6 of his Journey,
“Now if you ask how all these things are to come about,
ask grace, not doctrine;
desire, not intellect;
the groaning of prayer and not studious reading;
the Spouse not the teacher;
God, not a human being;
darkness not clarity;
not light, but the fire that inflames totally and carries one into God
through spiritual fervor and wit the most burning affections..."
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