"We love a thing in proportion to what it has cost us. You may judge by that fact about Our Lord's love for souls, which has cost Him all His Precious Blood. He is, therefore, eager for communications, for interactions with us. He longs to see the soul, to hear it...."

--Saint Jean-Marie Vianney, "On the Joys of the Interior Life," in The Spirit of the Curé of Ars, by M. l'Abbé Monnin, transl. by Rev. J.E. Bowden (1864).