To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.
God, deliver me from sullen saints.
The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
Lord, how Thou dost afflict Thy lovers!
As God's beloved, I live in the bliss knowing that my soul is never separated from Him, for I learn to know Her in all that I see. God dissolved my mind-my separation. I cannot describe now my intimacy with Him.