God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.

To want to become angels while we are still on earth ... is ridiculous.

Lord, how Thou dost afflict Thy lovers!

Dream that the more you struggle, the more you prove the love that you bear your God, and the more you will rejoice one day with your Beloved, in a happiness and rapture that can never end.

When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.

Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything.

It will be as well, I think, to explain these locutions of God, and to describe what the soul feels when it receives them.