The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are but only their potential likeness to ourselves then we do not love them we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them

The whole function of the life of prayer is then to enlighten and strengthen our conscience so that it not only knows and perceives the outward written precepts of the moral and divine laws but above all lives Gods law in concrete reality by perfect and continual union with His will.