Fire and Iron

"If fire and iron could reason and if the iron said to the fire: 'Draw me,' that would prove its wish to be so identified with the fire as to share its very substance. Well, that is just what my prayer is. I ask Jesus to draw me into the flames of his love and to unite me so closely to Him that he lives and acts in me. I feel that the more the fire of love encompasses my heart, the more I shall say: 'Draw me,' and the more will those souls who are near to mine 'run swiftly in the sweet odour of the Beloved.'

Yes, they will run and we shall run together, for souls on fire cannot stay still."

St. Therese of Lisieux
The Story of a Soul