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Death can hold no bitterness for the soul that loves. It brings with it all the sweetness and delights of love. There is no sadness in the remembrance of it when it opens the door to all joy.

...when desire and concupiscence are quenched, the soul lives in spiritual tranquility and peace; for, where desire and concupiscence reign not, there is no disturbance, but peace and consolation of God.

The soul that is attached to anything however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for, until the cord be broken the bird cannot fly.

The soul in which God dwells has no other function than of an altar.

In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

First, let him have a habitual desire to imitate Christ in everything that he does, conforming himself to His life; upon which life he must meditate so that he may know how to imitate it, and to behave in all things as Christ would behave.

Perfection does not lie in the virtues that the soul knows it has, but in the virtues that our Lord sees in it. This is a closed book; hence one has no reason for presumption, but must remain prostrate on the ground with respect to self.

It seems to the soul that the entire universe is a sea of love in which it is engulfed, for conscious of the living point or center of love within itself, it is unable to catch sight of the boundaries of this love.

Since the delight arising from the sigh of Your being and beauty is unendurable, and since I must die in seeing You, may the vision of Your beauty be my death.

SC 11:6

Ah, my Lord and my God! How many go to You looking for their own consolation and gratification and desiring that You grant them favors and gifts, but those wanting to give You pleasure and something at a cost to themselves, setting aside their own interests, are few.

DN 2, 19:4

Thus you must undertake all things, agreeable or disagreeable, for the sole purpose of pleasing God through them.