If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.

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

We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.

Behold how all those people are merchants who shun great sins and would like to be good and do good deeds in God's honour, such as fasts, vigils, prayers, and similar good deeds of all kinds. They do all these things so that our Lord may give them something, or so that God may do something dear to them. All these people are merchants.

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

Do not cling to the symbols, but get to the inner truth!

Let God work in you, give the work to God, and have peace. Don't worry if He works through your nature or above your nature, because both are His, nature and grace.