...for that which is beyond your strength, be absolutely certain that our Lord loves you, devotedly and individually; loves you just as you are.
How often that conviction is lacking even in those souls who are most devoted to God! They make repeated efforts to love Him, they experience the joy of loving, and yet how little they know, how little they realize, that God loves them incomparably more than they will ever know how to love Him.
Think only of this and say to yourself, "I am loved by God more than I can either conceive or understand."
Let this fill all your soul and all your prayers and never leave you. You will soon see that this is the way to find God. It contains the whole of St. John's teaching:
"As for us, we have believed in the love which God has for us..."
Accustom yourself to the wonderful thought that God loves you with a tenderness, a generosity, and an intimacy which surpasses all your dreams. Give yourself up with joy to a loving confidence in God and have courage to believe firmly that God's action towards you is a masterpiece of partiality and love.
Rest tranquilly in this abiding conviction.
-Henri de Tourville
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