Servile love acts like a domestic servant who is hired to clean out dirty jugs. A child loves a 
father not with a mercenary love, that is, for any advantage to be had from him. Nor does a child fear to offend a father for dread of punishment, but only for the father's goodness and love.
So it is nature and the power of love that compel a true child to love and serve a father. Nothing else deserves to be loved except in God; but to love all creatures in him and for him is to love the Father.
St Catherine of Siena
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