A friend:

"Those to whom it has been granted to become children of God and to be born from on high of the Holy Spirit . . . sometimes weep and lament, as it were, over the human race and, praying for the whole of Adam, shed tears and cry, burning with spiritual love for mankind. Sometimes their spirit flares up with such joy and love that, if it were possible, they would take every man into their heart, wicked or good, without distinction. Sometimes, in the humility of their spirit, they so abase themsleves before each man that they consider themselves the least and smallest of all."

-- St. Makarios the Great