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“The more a soul loves, the more it longs. the more it hopes, the more it finds.”
P 62

“To quench thirst it is necessary to drink. Reading books about it only makes it worse.” p. 42

“Wonderful mystery of love! To deprive a heart of God that longs only for him! For by this means alone can perfect faith be established in souls. Then it is that they will believe what they cannot see and rely on what they cannot grasp with their senses.” p. 39

“To love God is to long earnestly to do so.” p. 30

“Faith always lives in God and his works even when they seem harmful and blind the senses. Scared, they suddenly cry out: ‘Wretch, you’re lost! At the end of your tether!’ And faith immediately replies yet louder: ‘Hold fast, march on, fear nothing.’” p. 23

“And, having tried all the known ways and means of pleasing you and not finding you any longer in any of them, we remain at a loss until, finally, the futility of all our efforts leads us at last to leave all to find you henceforth, you, yourself, everywhere and in all things without discrimination or reflection.”

Divine Love, conceal yourself, leap over our suffering, make us obedient! Mystify us, arouse and confuse us. Shatter all our illusions and plans so that we lose our way, and see neither path nor light until we have found you, where you are to be found and in your true form— the peace of solitude, in prayer, in submission, in suffering, in succour given to another, and in flight from idle talk and worldly affairs.