• Ex. 3:13: What is your name?

• Ex. 5:22-23: Why do you treat this people so harshly? Why did you send me here?

• Ex. 7:6: Moses and Aaron obeyed. They did just what Yahweh commanded them.

• Ex. 14:14: The Lord will fight for you.

• Ex. 15: Moses and the sons of Israel sang to the Lord.

• Ex. 16-22: Moses went on listening to Yahweh and doing His will.

• Ex. 32:11-14: Turn from your fierce wrath; change your mind... and the Lord changed his mind.

• Ex. 33:12-23: Intimate dialogue: If you are not going with us yourself, do not make us leave this place.

• Ex. 34:5-9: The Lord descended in the cloud and Moses stood with him there.

This sweet recollection of our soul within itself is made not only by knowledge of God's presence within our heart, but also by any way of placing ourselves in his sacred presence. Sometimes it happens that all our interior powers close up and withdraw into themselves because of the extreme reverence and sweet fear seizing us as we consider the sovereign majesty of him who is present within us and looks upon us. No matter how distracted we may be, if the pope or some great prince makes his appearance we return to ourselves and recall our thoughts so as to be on good behaviour and show respect. The blue lily, also called the flag, is said to draw its flowers together at the sight of the sun. this is because they close up and unite while the sun is shining whereas in its absence they spread out and remain open at night. The same thing happens in this kind of recollection that we are speaking of. Simply because of God's presence or simply because we know that he sees us, whether from heaven or from any other place outside us even if we do not remember that other type of presence by which he is in us - our powers and faculties assemble and gather together within us out of respect for his divine majesty, which love makes us fear with a fear of honour and respect. (Treatise on the Love of God, Book VI, Chapter 7).

How does this sacred outpouring of the soul into its beloved take place? A lover's great complacence in the thing loved produces a certain spiritual weakness, which makes the soul feel unable to remain any longer within itself. For this reason, it is like melted balm that is no longer firm or solid, and lets itself go out and flow into what it loves. It does not spring out of itself by a sudden leap, nor does it close up by way of union. It flows out gently like something liquid and fluid into God whom it loves. We see how clouds condensed by the south wind dissolve and turn into rain. They cannot contain themselves but fall and flow downwards and mingle so completely with the earth they moisten as to become one with it. So too the soul which, though loving, still remained within itself, issues forth by this sacred outflow and holy fluidity. It leaves itself not only to be united to its beloved but also to be completely mingled and steeped in him. (Treatise on the Love of God, Book VI, Chapter 12)

Good night, my very dear daughter. May this sacred fire which changes all things in its flames transform our heart so that nothing may remain except love, and we may no longer be loving, but love itself no longer two but, a single self, since love binds all things in a sovereign unity. May God be with you my dear daughter! Let us persevere in our desire for this unity which God has made us taste even now, in so far as our infirm condition can understand it, and may he then give us a more perfect enjoyment of it in heaven. (Letter to Jane de Chantal, Selected letters; 22nd May, 1611, p. 192.)

Francis believed that his friendship which was entirely or totally pure and supernatural for St. Jane de Chantal was no more capable of increase. Here then, God pours forth into his spirit such an increase of love not only for Him but also for this other soul (St. Jane) and to whom God had intimately bound the supernatural destiny of Francis that he could never doubt it. This love which is in him (Francis) is not from him. "Oh, it is God without doubt". Here is how a prayer begun according to the ordinary rules, from which one should never turn away according to one's whim or fancy, culminates itself in an act of love of neighbour clearly realized as surpassing the powers of one's soul in the exercise of the virtue of charity. (AE XIV, p. 313; Comments of Pierre Serouet Cf. De La Vie Devote... p. 239).