It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.

Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.

The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.

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.

Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.

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

To join two things together there must be nothing between them or there cannot be a perfect fusion. Now realize that this is how God wants our soul to be, without any selfish love of ourselves or of others in between, just as God loves us without anything in between.