Living Theology of the Heart

To the Reader.

...these representations original: "verbeeldinge." This refers to the devotional emblems or illustrations that were a popular feature of 17th-century spiritual literature, intended to help the reader visualize spiritual truths., which I found in the French language, I wished to bring to light (although adorned and expanded with verses, soliloquies soliloquies: from the Latin "soliloquium," meaning a conversation with oneself or one's soul, often used as a form of private prayer, and sighs original: "Suchtingen." In the context of "heart-theology," sighs refer to short, fervent, and wordless prayers or emotional aspirations directed toward God.).

6. If these shall now draw your Heart in such a way, and touch it through the power of Divine grace just as they have touched mine, then you shall not have used them in vain.

7. This I wish for you, just as for myself, commending you to the grace of the Heart of JESUS burning with love, and I remain