Love is its own merit and its own reward.

 

“Love is its own merit and its own reward. Love needs no cause, no fruit besides itself; its enjoyment is its practice. I love because I love; I love that I may love. Love is a great thing; as long as it returns to its beginning in God, goes back to its origin, turns again to its source, it will always draw afresh from it and flow freely."

St. Bernard of Clairvaux,
12th century Cistercian monk

Photo: Lewis Monkeyflowers growing along the Garden Wall; Glacier National Park, MT; July 31, 2013

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