“THE creature cannot serve the Creator except with a service of love. Love is the soul of worship, the foundation of reverence, the life of good works, the remission of sins, the increase of holiness, and the security of final perseverance. Love meets the first of our requirements; for of all the services it is the easiest. Its facility has passed into a proverb. It is also the noblest and happiest of services, the noblest because it is the least mercenary, the happiest because it is the most voluntary. It is the only one which calls out and occupies the whole man; and it is naturally a creature’s obvious service; for it is the only service which he would care to have rendered to himself. Love alone fulfills all the commandments at once, and is the perfection of all our duties.”

— Fr. Frederick William Faber, The Creator and the Creature, or the Wonders of Divine Love

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