How quickly runs in love that has the heart expanded by trust. Not only does he run, but he flies, because having put his hope in the Lord, he will be stripped of his weakness and will have the strength that God communicates to him.
"Those who wait on God says the prophet will renew their strength, they will be born like the wings of an eagle, they will fly and never fail" (Is, 40, 31)
The one who loves God the most waits for his goodness, and from this expectation springs the rest that produces joy and well-being. For which reason the Bride overflows with delights, because not loving more than her beloved, only at rest (Q. 8.5)
The love of God is pure and perfect, the love of God is to want to meet him face to face, not so much for the joy that we love him, as for the contentment that we love him and the peace that our being feels. The sky is to see that the happiness that God feels to be with us, does not end. To enter into the joy of the Lord is to share this knowledge. Therefore, those who are already with God definitely prefer to lose paradise as long as God does not lack even a small part of that happiness.
Just as fire enters the iron and does the same thing with it, so God penetrates the soul filling it with itself, reaching the point of remaining as if it were not, full of all God's fullness, will make us feel at peace indescribable and a total serenity for a