The outward work can never be small if the inward one is great, and the outward work can never be great or good if the inward is small or of little worth.

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.

Nature's intent is neither food, nor drink, nor clothing, nor comfort, nor anything else in which God is left out. Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly nature seeks, hunts, tries to ferret out the track on which God may be found.

This is not only a commandment but also a promise or reward.

God is the word that speaks itself.

No one is forgotten. It is a lie, any talk of God that does not comfort you.