Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.

Love transforms one into what one loves.

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.

Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.

From self-knowledge flows the stream of humility, which never seizes on mere report, nor takes offense at anything, but bears every insult, every loss of consolation, and every sorry, from whatever direction they may come, patiently, with joy.

The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.

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