Painting by Petrus Van Schendel

"Prayer is nothing other than a union with God.

  When your heart is pure and united with God,

 you feel within yourself a balm, 

a sweetness that is inebriating, 

a light that is dazzling. 

 In this intimate union,

 God and the soul

 are like two pieces of wax

 that have melted together; 

you can no longer separate them."

                                                                                                                         Saint John Vianney