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David also said that clouds and darkness are near God and surround him [Ps. 18:11], not because this is true in itself, but because it appears thus to our weak intellects, which in being unable to attain so bright a light are blinded and darkened.

The soul that is quick to turn to speaking and conversing is slow to turn to God.

For this reason, the purer, simpler, and more perfect the general knowledge is, the darker it seems to be and the less the intellect perceives.

All my occupation now is the practice of the love of God.  All I do is done in love.  All I suffer I suffer in the sweetness of love.  This is the meaning of David when he says, 'I will keep my strength to Thee.'

What God seeks, He being Himself God by nature, is to make us gods through participation, just as fire converts all things into fire.

For You, O divine life, never kill unless to give life, never wound unless to heal.

All the being of creation, then, compared with the infinite Being of God, is nothing. And therefore the soul that sets its affection upon the being of creation is likewise nothing in the eyes of God, and less than nothing; for, as we have said, love makes equality and similitude, and even sets the lover below the object of his love.

I desire your progress, but it strikes me that enough has already been said and written for the attainment of everything you need. If anything is lacking it is not writing and speaking, but in silence and work.

True love accepts with perfect resignation, yes, even with joy, whatever comes it it from the hand of the Beloved, for 'perfect love casts out fear'.

God repays trials very well with divine goods for soul and body - there is not a trial which does not have a corresponding and considerable reward.

At the evening of life, you will be examined in love.

In savoring a finite joy
the very most one can expect
is to enfeeble and destroy
our taste, leaving the palate wrecked;
for all the sweetness there may be
I’ll never throw away my soul…