The incomprehensible wealth and sublimity and the universality of the
gifts which flow forth from the divine nature awake wonder in the heart
of man, and above all he marvels at the universal presence of God and
of His works, a presence which is above everything, for he beholds the
inconceivable essence, which is the common joy of God and of all the
saints. And he sees that the Divine Persons send forth one common
effluence in works, in grace, and in glory, in nature and above nature,
in all states and in all times, in men and in the glorified saints, in
heaven and on earth, in all reasonable creatures, and in those which
are without reason or material, according to the merits, the needs, and
the receptivity of each. And he sees the creation of the heaven and the
earth, the sun and the moon, the four elements with all the creatures,
and the course of the heavens, which is common to all. God, with all
His gifts, is common to all, men and angels are a common gift, and the
soul with all its faculties....
When man thus considers the wealth and the marvellous sublimity of the
divine nature, and all the manifold gifts which He grants and offers
to His creatures, amazement is stirred up in his spirit at the sight
of so manifold a wealth and majesty; at the sight of the immense
faithfulness of God to all His creatures. This causes a strange joy of
spirit, and a boundless trust in God, and this inward joy surrounds
and penetrates all the forces of the souls in the secret places of the
spirit.