Yearning: It needs to hurt in order to be worthy of the word. Otherwise it is just wanting.

Now that I no longer desire all, I have it all without desire.

Live as though only God and yourself were in this world, so that your heart may not be detained by anything human.

Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.

He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he can hardly catch it again.

The soul that walks in love neither tires others nor grows tired.

God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.