Into this mystery of undying love, gloom born of sinful experience should not enter. On the contrary, our soul should be joyously courageous and calmly confident, rising, as it embraces God in the fullness of fervent faith, up to the happiness of Heaven, even though we had before Holy Communion been desolate with fear and wasted with sorrow. Christ will surely answer such faith, because this largeness of desire imitates His own boundless beneficence. A ready, spontaneous, practical correspondence with grace, the effect of lively faith, will accompany largeness of desire. Possessing God, the soul will grow in the consciousness of an increasing capacity for divine light, and will slowly acquire, within the scope of its limited powers, the knowledge of the full greatness of God's love.
Mental growth is measured by the prolonged contemplation of a particular study or a definite object.
The increased mastery of a science depends upon the yearning for its acquisition. The more the mind progresses in truth, the more enlarged and developed becomes its capability for receiving more truth. As the horizon of knowledge widens, the mind's power to grasp increases, and the desire for more knowledge keeps pace with the mind's greater power of intelligence. The same truth is seen in the spiritual order. The more we desire to know God, the clearer will be our vision of Him.