If you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way.

If anyone would like to acquire humility, the first step is to realize one is proud. Nothing can be done before it.

If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.

The more we get what we now call 'ourselves' out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly ourselves we become.

Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.

Before God closed in on me, I was offered what now appears a moment of wholly free choice. But I feel my decision was not so important. I was the object rather than the subject in this affair.

When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place [if we anticipate and look for it, rather than wallow in our 'supposed loss'. It can be helpful to think of the loss of that blessing as simply necessary to make way for another different blessing].