For our soul is so preciously loved of him that is highest, that it over-passeth the knowing of all creatures.

We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.

Our Lord is the ground from whom our prayer grows and in his love and grace he himself gives us our prayers.

He said not 'Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be dis-eased'; but he said, 'Thou shalt not be overcome.

Charity keepeth us in Faith and Hope, and Hope leadeth us in Charity. And in the end all shall be Charity.

God is nearer to us than our own spirit

When I was thirty years old and a half, God sent me a bodily sickness, in which I lay three days and three nights; and on the fourth night I took all my rites of Holy Church, and weened not to have lived till day.