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

I was wholly at peace, at ease and at rest, so that there was nothing upon earth which could have afflicted me. This lasted for a time, and then I was changed ... I felt there was no ease or comfort for me except faith, hope and love, and truly I felt very little of this. And then presently God gave me again comfort and rest for my soul ... And then again I felt the pain, and then afterwards the delight and joy, now the one and now the other, again and again, I suppose about twenty times.

He that made all things for love, by the same love keepeth them, and shall keep them without end.

The ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love.

As we know, our own mother bore us only into pain and dying. But our true mother, Jesus, who is all love, bears us into joy and endless living. Blessed may he be.

We give our intent to love and meekness, by the working of mercy and grace we are made all fair and clean.

In God's sight we do not fall: in our own we do not stand.