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 more than for any other; because with Divine love all good comes to a soul: All good things come together with her. This made St. Augustine say, "Love, and do whatever you like." Whoever loves a person avoids everything that may offend him, and always seeks what may give him most pleasure. Thus is it with one who really loves God; he can never deliberately do anything to offend Him, but he studies in every possible manner to please Him. VIRGIN AND CHILD And in order the more quickly and the more surely to obtain this gift of Divine love, let us have recourse to the foremost of God's lovers---I mean, to Mary His Mother, who was so inflamed with His holy love that the devils, as St. Bonaventure assures us, had not the boldness even to tempt her: "They were scared away by her burning charity, so that they dared not approach her." And Richard adds that even the Seraphim themselves might descend from their lofty throne in Heaven to take a lesson in love from the heart of Mary. And because, continues St. Bonaventure, the heart of Mary was a complete furnace of Divine love, therefore all who love this Blessed Mother, and address themselves to her, will be inflamed by her with the same love; she will make them resemble herself.