“God Himself, all the glorious spirits, and the whole family of the eternal King wait for us, and desire that we should be associated to them; and shall not we pant above all things to be admitted into their happy company? He would appear amongst them with great confusion, who had not in this valley of tears continually raised his soul above all things visible to become already, in ardent desire, an inhabitant of those blessed regions.”—St. Bonaventure. Doctor of the Church
(Quoted in Fr. Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints, on the chapter of the same saint.)