My dear sister,
how can you ask me if you can love God as I do? (…) I am certain that good God would not give you the desire to be possessed by Him, His merciful Love, if He had not reserved this sign of favor for you, or has rather already given it to you, because you have surrendered to Him, because you long to be consumed by Him, and because God never gives us desires that He could not fulfill.
(Therese of Lisieux, response to Sister Marie of the Sacred Heart, September 1896)