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It is not that we keep His commandments first, and that then He loves; but that He loves us, and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace which is revealed to the humble but hidden from the proud.
Lord, when I look upon mine own life, it seems you has led me so carefully, so tenderly, you cannot have attended to none else; but when I see how wonderfully you have led the world and are leading it, I am amazed that you has had time to attend to such as I.
~ Augustine ~
What reward therefore shall I give the Lord for all the benefits that He has done to me? By His first work He gave me to myself; and by the next He gave Himself to me. And when He gave Himself, He gave me back myself that I had lost. Myself for myself, given and restored, I doubly owe to Him. But, what shall I return for Himself? A thousand of myself would be as nothing in respect of Him.
~ Bernard Of Clairvaux ~
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