The soul loves the body. And consider too how it is that the body is more in the soul than the soul is in the body.

When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order

Nobody at any time is cut off from God.

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

I maintain that all sorrow comes from love of those things of which loss deprives me.

A life of rest and peace in God is good; a life of pain lived in patience is still better; but to have peace in a life of pain is best of all.

The soul will bring forth Person if God laughs into her and she laughs back to him. To speak in parable, the Father laughs into the Son and the Son laughs back to the Father; and this laughter breeds liking and liking breeds joy, and joy begets love, and love begets Person, and Person begets the Holy Ghost.