heart conquered

April 20

 God wants to conquer for himself making us prove extremely abundant sweetness and consolations in all our devotions, in the will, as in the heart. But who does not discover the serious dangers threatening such love to God? It is easy for the poor soul clings to the accident of devotion and love of God, without worrying about nothing or almost nothing of that devotion and love that substantial, they are the only ones that make it beloved and pleasing to God.
Before this great danger, our sweet Lord come quickly with loving concern. When he sees that the soul is well grounded in love, and who has fallen and attached to it, seeing it as apart from earthly things and occasions of sin, and has attained sufficient basis to stay in his holy service without these rewards and those sweets of sense, wanting to take her to a greater holiness of life, takes away the sweetness of affection, which so far has seen in all his meditations, prayers and other devotions yours, and what is more painful for the soul in this situation is to lose the facility for prayer and meditation and being left in the dark in an overall dryness and painful. [...].
My God, how easy it has been deceived! What the poor soul called abandonment is not nothing but a singular and very special care with her heavenly Father. This step is only theirs the beginning of contemplation, dry at first, but soon, if faithful, for he shall be brought to the contemplative meditative state, you will become soft and tasty.
(January 9, 1915, to Raffaelina Cerase - Letters. II, p. 291)