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It is true that these are Excesses of Our Love...

but Loving without being recognized and loved... 

nobody could endure or continue to live. 

Therefore, we will continue Our follies of Love, Our Stratagems...

to give course to Our Life of Love.

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Then He added, with even more intense emphasis of Love: 

“My daughter, Our sighs are so many—so great Our anxiety for the desire to have the creature always with Us, that we want always to give her of Ourselves. But do you know what We want to give her? Our Will! By giving her Our Will, there is no Good We do not give to her. 

So having her as though drowned in Our Love, Beauty, Sanctity and so forth, We say: ‘We have given you so much, and you—you give Us nothing?’ The creature, confused because she has nothing to give Us—and even if she has something, it is Ours—looks at her will and gives it to Us, as the most Beautiful homage to her Creator. 

And do you know what We do? If she gave Us her will in every instant, each time We would give her the merit, as if she had a will for each time she has given it to Us. And We give her Our Will for each time she gave Us her own, Redoubling each time Our Sanctity, Our Love, etc.

[16.1.1938]