Contemplation… has this excellency that it is made with delight, for it supposes that we have found God and his holy love, that we enjoy it and delight in it, saying, “I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go” (Sgs 3:4). In this it differs from meditation, which almost always is performed with difficulty, labour, and reasoning, our mind passing from consideration to consideration…
Saint Francis de Sales