“As regards entering into His Sacred Heart, go; what have you to fear, since He Himself invites you to enter and take your repose there? Is It not the throne of mercy, at which the most wretched are the best received, provided love presents them in the abyss of their misery? If we are pusillanimous, cold, imperfect, is It not a burning furnace, in which we can perfect and purify ourselves like gold in the crucible, to become a loving sacrifice, immolated and sacrificed to His adorable designs? Abandon yourself without reserve to His loving providence. Leave yourself and you will find all. Forget yourself, and He will think of you. Lose yourself in the abyss of your own nothingness, and you will possess Him. But what is to enable you to do all this? The love that you will find in the Sacred Heart, in Which you must not only endeavor to make your retreat, but you must also take It as your guide and principal director, in order that He may teach you what He wishes of you, and give you strength to accomplish it perfectly.” St. Margaret Mary Alacoque   (As quoted by Rev. George Tickell in pg. 381 from his work ‘The Life of Blessed Margaret Mary’)