Oh Lord, my life and my strength, one of the greatest of the divine mercies which you have bestowed upon me is to deign to invite a creature so sinful and ungrateful as I am to love Your Majesty.  In Your presence the heavenly seraphim veil their faces, dazzeled by the spendor of the divinity and the fire of Your love.  I am honored by the liberality and at the same time impelled to love You in return for Your love and for the desire that you have to unite me to Your heart, that sweet refuge to which I long to fly that I may find repose therein.
~Ven. John of Jesus Mary
Colloquy ~ Divine Intimacy 358