My Lord told me a joke. And seeing Him laugh has done more for me than any scripture I will ever read.

Grace pours all beauty into the soul ... The soul means the world.

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.

The seed of God is in us. If the seed had a good, wise and industrious cultivator, it would thrive all the more and grow up to God whose seed it is, and the fruit would be equal to the nature of God. Now the seed of a pear tree grows into a pear tree, a hazel seed into a hazel tree, and the seed of God into God.

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

Know that when you seek anything of your own, you will never find God, because you do not seek God purely. You are seeking something along with God, and you are acting just as if you were to make a candle out of God in order to look for something with it. Once one finds the things one is looking for, one throws the candle away. This is what you are doing.

The love by which we love God is the very same love with which God has first loved us.