God is not good, or else he could do better.

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.

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.

God is greater than God.

God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away. God lies in wait for us with nothing so much as love.

Only he to whom God is present in everything and who employs his reason in the highest degree and has enjoyment in it knows anything of true peace and has a real kingdom of heaven.