Feasts And Business And Pleasure And Enjoyments

All That Is Sweet, Delightful, And Amiable In This World, In The Serenity Of The Air, The Fineness Of Seasons, The Joy Of Light, The Melody Of Sounds, The Beauty Of Colors, The Fragrancy Of Smells, The Splendor Of Precious Stones, Is Nothing Else But Heaven Breaking Through The Veil Of This World.

Let Every Creature Have Your Love. Love, With Its Fruits Of Meekness, Patience, And Humility, Is All That We Can Wish For Ourselves And Our Fellow Creatures. For This Is To Live In God, United With Him, Both For Time And Eternity. To Desire To Communicate Good To Everyone, In The Degree That We Can And To Which Each Person Is Capable Of Receiving From Us, Is A Divine Temper, For Thus God Stands Unchangeably Disposed Towards The Whole Creation.

A Revelation Is To Be Received As Coming From God, Not Because Of Its Internal Excellence, Or Because We Judge It To Be Worthy Of God; But Because God Has Declared It To Be His In As Plain And Undeniable A Manner As He Has Declared Creation And Providence To Be His.

This Is The State Of All Creatures, Whether Men Or Angels; As They Make Not Themselves, So They Enjoy Nothing From Themselves; If They Are Great, It Must Be Only As Great Receivers Of The Gifts Of God; Their Power Can Only Be So Much Of The Divine Power Acting In Them; Their Wisdom Can Be Only So Much Of The Divine Wisdom Shining Within Them; And Their Light And Glory, Only So Much Of The Light And Glory Of God Shining Upon Them.

The Will Is That Which Has All Power; It Makes Heaven And It Makes Hell: For There Is No Hell But Where The Will Of The Creature Is Turned From God, Nor Any Heaven But Where The Will Of The Creature Worketh With God.