Perfect love is the source of perfect abandonment…The union produced by love is especially a union of will. Loves causes the lovers to have the same likes and dislikes…Hatred fills the heart with sentiments and affections…Hence we must conclude that love is the measure of union and conformity of wills, so that imperfect love means imperfect conformity; increased love, increased conformity, perfect love, perfect conformity…the purpose of love is heavenly union…St John: “He who abides in love abides in God, and God in him”. …divine love is to give the creature to God and God to the creature, to unite them intimately, the one with the other. Whenever this tendency to union is absent, there the love of friendship must be absent, too. –Abbot Vital Lehody “The Way that Leads to God”.