Its Fruit Is Its Use

Amor praeter se non requirit causam, non fructum; fructus ejus, usus ejus.

Love needs no cause except itself nor fruit save itself; its fruit is its use.

- St. Bernard

Love is sufficient to itself. Love is its own end. Love is its own merit. The very act of loving is the greatest reward of love. And to love God without expecting something from doing so creates the only and greatest joy.

Can a soul who truly loves ever settle for beliefs again?

Can a soul who truly loves ever gauge their life by even the best of intentions and most honest of actions again?

Nothing is in fact so indicative of hostility toward the love of God - which is simultaneously the cause and fruit of passive contemplation - as regimentation. Intractable willfulness clearly marks a person who is not guided by love.