And so I saw full surely that before ever God made us, he loved us. And this love was never quenched nor ever shall be. And in this love he is done all his works, and in this love he made all things profitable to us, and in this love our life is everlasting. In our making we had beginning, but the love in which he made us was in him from without beginning.
–Saint Julian of Norwich (1342-1416)