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The Book of Perpetual Adoration.

places Himself at times in so small a fragment of the Sacred Host, that it is scarcely perceptible to the eye of His creatures. Behold Him then, apparently stripped of all the greatness of His Divinity ! No Human Person is found there, the Sacred Humanity subsisting only in the Divine Person. It is love makes Him leave all things. The Great All leaves everything for nothingness.

After that, shall we miserable beings, in our nothingness, have the courage to reserve anything to ourselves ?

Earth has nothing really great ; but, even if it were full of earthly grandeurs, we ought justly to despise them in comparison with our dear Lord. O, how rare is it to find a heart that truly loves this Divine Lover of men ! If it be natural in real love to leave all for the loved one, it must be said that there are few who love, because there are few who know how to leave creatures for love of Jesus.

Some are attached to gold and silver, others to the pleasures of the senses; some are kept from loving God by the esteem they have for the world, and what people will say of them ; others by the love of some frail creature. You will see some who cannot overcome the love they have for their body ; men who cannot give up good cheer, delicate dishes, delicious wines; women who pass great part of their lives in dressing, talking about dress and their head-gear. O God! what conversation for people who hope to live in eternity!