"Perfect love will never want the preeminence in everything, it will never want to take the place of another, it will always be willing to take the back seat."

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

— Bernard of Clairvaux