I saw full surely that ere God made us He loved us; which love was never slacked, nor ever shall be. And in this love He hath done all His works; and in this love He hath made all things profitable to us; and in this love our life is everlasting. In our making we had beginning; but the love wherein He made us was in Him from without beginning: in which love we have our beginning. And all this shall we see in God, without end.

Anything less then God, ever me wanteth.

It is most impossible that we should beseech mercy and grace, and not have it.

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

God loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall.

For we are so preciously loved by God that we cannot even comprehend it.

The ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love. And this was shewed in such manner that I could not have perceived of the part of mercy but as it were alone in love; that is to say, as to my sight.