We were enclosed, O eternal Father, within the garden of your breast. You drew us out of your holy mind like a flower petaled with our soul's three powers and into each power you put the whole plant, so that they might bear fruit in your garden, might come back to you with the fruit you gave them. And you would come back to the soul, to fill her with your blessedness. There the soul dwells like the fish in the sea and the sea in the fish.

Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.

Obedience shows whether you are grateful.

Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.

Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.

Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God's sake.

You will do very well to refuse offices; for a man seldom fails to give offense in them. It ought to weary you simply to hear them mentioned.