"I confess before anything else that it is a great embarrassment to me not to know how to talk about or deal with this burning volcano that is constantly in me, that Jesus has poured into this small heart of mine.

I can summarize it this way; I am consumed by love for God and love for my neighbor. God is fixed in my mind and stamped on my heart at all times; I never lose sight of him. I, for my part, admire his beauty, his smiles, the turmoil he sends me, his mercies, his vengeance-or, I should say, the rigors of his justice.

With this kind of deprivation of my freedom and this binding of my spiritual and physical faculties, Imagine how my poor soul is overwhelmed by these sentiments."

- St.  Pio of Pietrelcina