Thoughts from St Alphonsus for Every Day-December 13

THE pain that you feel on account of not being able to love God is a proof that you love him; for if you did not love him you would not feel this pain. Those persons who do not love God feel no pain in thinking that they do not love him.
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From Thoughts from St Alphonsus for Every Day
Compiled by Rev. C. McNeiry, C.SS.R.
Imprimatur: Joseph Hull, C.SS.R., Prov. Angl. Sup.
Nihil Obstat: Innocentlus Apap, O.P., S.T.M., Censor Deptutatus.
Imprimatur: Edm. Can. Surmont, Vicarius Generalis.
Westmonasterii, Die 9a Junii, 1927.
First published 1927