Love puts fear afar off. We follow Christ out of selfless love, as did the saints, for he loved us first:  According to St. Nicholas Kabasilas, “The saint loves, not what he himself prefers personally, but what Christ wants. The saint abandons himself and runs to Christ. He forgets his poverty and places his hopes on the wealth of Christ. For the power of love is what makes those who love to share the good things they have. The will and the desire of the saints is totally consumed in God”. 

The saints rejoice with what Christ rejoices; they are saddened by what saddens Christ; and they express and activate in history the will of Christ. They speak as the mouths of Christ to reveal the truth. They work as the hands of God in the world and they do miracles.