By virtue of love is the lover transformed in the beloved and the beloved transformed in the lover.

By virtue of love is the lover transformed in the beloved and the beloved transformed in the lover.

Humility exists only in those who are poor enough to see that they possess nothing of their own.

O my soul, how can you refrain from plunging yourself ever deeper and deeper into the love of Christ, who did not forget you in life or in death, but who willed to give Himself wholly to you, and to unite you to Himself forever?

In that time and by God's will there died my mother, who was a great hindrance unto me in following the way of God; my husband died likewise, and in a short time there also died all my children. And because I had commenced to follow the aforesaid way and had prayed God that He would rid me of them, I had great consolation of their deaths, albeit I did also feel some grief.

Without humility of heart all the other virtues by which one runs toward God seem - and are - absolutely worthless.

So great was my joy in God that I took no heed of looking at the angels and the saints, because all their goodness and all their beauty was from Him and in Him.