A spark...

A spark of pure love is more precious before God,

more useful for the soul,

and
more rich in
benedictions for the assembley

than all the other works taken together,

even if,
according to
appearance,

one does nothing."



St. John of the Cross
in Whitall N. Perry
_A Treasury of Traditional Wisdom_
Varanasi: Indica, 1998 (1971), p. 356