Love and Reasoning

All desires are but beads of glass. Love of God increases every moment and is ever new, to be known only by feeling it. Love is the easiest of all, it waits for no logic, it is natural. We need no demonstration, no proof. Reasoning is limiting something by our own minds. We throw a net and catch something, and then say that we have demonstrated it, but never, never can we catch God in a net.

Retreat given at the Thousand Island Park, USA. June 24, 1895. Complete Works, 7.10.