On Sentimentalism
"The heart is deceitful above all things,
and desperately corrupt;
who can understand it?"
(Jeremiah 17:9)
«The soul is not united with God in this life through understanding, nor through enjoyment, nor through the imagination, nor through any sense whatsoever; but only through faith, according to the understanding; and through hope, according to the memory; and through love, according to the will.» (St. John of the Cross, Ascent of Mount Carmel)