In your nature, eternal Godhead, I shall come to know my nature. And what is my nature? It is fire, because you are nothing but a fire of love. And you have given humankind a share in this nature, for by the fire of love you created us.

It is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.

Out of darkness is born the light.

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

The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.

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

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.