My children, mark me. I pray you. Know! God loves my soul so much that his very life and being depend upon his loving me, whether he would or no. To stop God loving me would be to rob him of his Godhood; for God is love no less than he is truth; as he is good, so is he love as well. It is the absolute truth, as God lives... If anyone would ask me what God is, I should answer: God is love, and so altogether lovely that creatures all with one accord essay to love his loveliness, whether they do so knowingly or unbeknownst, in joy or sorrow.

Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly all nature seeks God and works toward [God].

I do not find God outside myself or conceive him except as my own and in me.

Where intuition finds, love follows, and memory and all the soul as well.

This then is salvation - when we marvel at the beauty of created things and praise their beautiful Creator.

A man may go into the field and say his prayer and be aware of God, or he may be in Church and be aware of God; but if he is more aware of Him because he is in a quiet place, that is his own deficiency and not due to God, Who is alike present in all things and places, and is willing to give Himself everywhere so far as lies in Him... He knows God rightly who knows Him everywhere.

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.