Fish cannot drown in water. Birds cannot sink in air. This has God given to all creatures, to foster and seek their own nature. How then can I withstand mine?

Lord, you are my lover, my longing, my flowing stream, my sun, and I am your reflection.

From suffering I have learned this: that whoever is sore wounded by love will never be made whole unless she embraces the very same love which wounded her.

God, give me by Your grace what You give to dogs by nature.

The soul is made of love and must ever strive to return to love. Therefore, it can never find rest nor happiness in other things. It must lose itself in love. By its very nature it must seek God, who is love.

How should one live? Live Welcoming to all.

Those who would know much, and love little, will ever remain at but the beginning of a godly life.