God, let us sacrifice our free will and make it die to itself so that it may live in God! A man who out of self-love wishes to keep his freedom in this world shall lose it in the next world, and he who shall lose it in this world for love of God shall keep it for that same love in the next world. He who gives it liberty in this world shall find it a serf and a slave in the other world, and he who makes it serve the cross in this world shall have it free in the other world. For these, when he is absorbed in enjoyment of God’s goodness, his liberty will be converted into love and love into liberty, a liberty infinitely sweet. Without effort, without pain, and without any struggle we shall unchangingly and forever love the Creator and Savior of our souls.
TLG 2, 12, 278