It is only right and proper and just that we should give our heart to him if he himself thinks fit to ask for it. And he has thought it fit! “Give me your heart,” he says to us! He who asks you to give him your heart wants to be loved from the heart. God wants our whole heart for himself, that in him, before all else, it may take its pleasure.
EDITH SCHOLL, OCSO In The School of Love: An Anthology of Early Cistercian Texts
