Life - activity .... death – inactivity ....

B.D. No. 1928a May 21st 1941

This is life, that you are constantly active in love. For this is the state which testifies to your will towards God. God is love in Himself, He is life in Himself, i.e., He is strength which never lies fallow, which stimulates everything to activity .... He is strength that continues to increase through never-ending activity. Consequently, everything that enters into contact with God, consciously or unconsciously, must likewise be active. For it receives the strength from God which causes it to be active .... but power from God is love, and he who stands in love must be active, therefore live .... For every state of inactivity is death. Every state of inactivity is a resistance against God, a making oneself unreceptive to His strength and therefore lack of love. It is also a standstill, a persistence in the same imperfection, it is a distance from God and therefore something negative, something opposed to the divine .... It is a state of complete lack of will, because the will will always be active, in a good or in an evil way. The being can also be active in a bad way, but only in the stage as a human being, therefore the being is alive even then, although this life is only a purely physical, but not a spiritual life. The spirit is dead as long as it is not active in love, for only this activity is true life ....

Amen