Thoughts from St Alphonsus for Every Day-January 3

WHEN the heart is detached from creatures divine love immediately enters and fills it. The human heart cannot exist without loving; it must either love the Creator or creatures; if it does not love creatures, then assuredly it will love God.
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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