Quote of the day XXXII

"That God looks upon you with love, you can't have any doubt; for God lovingly regards even the most terrible sinners of the world, looking for the smallest true desire they have for conversion. Tell me, my dearest daughter, Don't you have the intention of being God's? Don't you want to serve God faithfully? And who gives this desire and this intention, if not God himself in his loving regard? To examine whether your heart is pleasing to him, is not the right approach, but whether his heart pleases you. And if you gaze upon his heart, it will be impossible for it not to please you, for it is a heart so gentle, so sweet, so graciously humble, so amorous of poor creatures if only they recognize their misery, so gracious towards the miserable, so good towards the penitent. And who would not love this royal heart, paternally maternal towards us?" -- St. Francis de Sales, Letter 1402