Give me the grace constantly to praise and glorify you with heart and tongue and, before I say a word, to weigh it on the golden scale of God's love. No matter how much it storms outside, our congregation will stand firm and continue to flourish as long as we persevere in holy love among ourselves. Love is the bond that unites us with one another and with God. We want to use no other weapons against our enemies but prayer and love. Cold, so-called sober reason does nothing to foster love.
Love gives everything gladly, everything again and again, daily.
The heart forms itself according to what it loves. My heart should beat only for you, O God, because it is made only by and for you and because everything is dust to me, you are my all. True happiness is happiness in God. Nothing suffices to fill the heart but God. To love you is here the beginning and hereafter the perfect and eternal continuation of true happiness.