The city is the image of the soul, the surrounding walls being the frontier between the outward and inward life. The gates are the faculties or senses connecting the life of the soul with the outward world. Living springs of water rise within it. And in the centre, where beats the heart, stands the holy sanctuary.

What is it you want to change? Your hair, your face, your body? Why? For God is in love with all those things and he might weep when they are gone.

There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.

God is closer to us than water is to a fish.

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

A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.

We trust and believe in what we love.