“O amiable Goodness!” “O infinite Charity!” “O my God and my All!” “O supreme Sweetness!” Make these aspirations, or any others, as God will inspire you; but remember that if, in making one of these short prayers of love, your soul regain her peace and recollection in God, it is unnecessary to make a second; continue, rather, this silence, this repose of the soul in God, which includes excellently all the acts that we can ever make.
–Saint Paul of the Cross (1694-1775)