The soul will bring forth Person if God laughs into her and she laughs back to him. To speak in parable, the Father laughs into the Son and the Son laughs back to the Father; and this laughter breeds liking and liking breeds joy, and joy begets love, and love begets Person, and Person begets the Holy Ghost.
Now rejoice, all ye powers of my soul, that you are so united with God that no one may separate you from Him. I cannot fully praise nor love Him therefore must I die, and cast myself into the divine void, till I rise from non-existence to existence.
Grace pours all beauty into the soul ... The soul means the world.
A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
No-one knows what the soul is. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion.
When the Soul wants to experience something she throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it.
I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God.
The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction.
God is in all things, but so far as God is Divine and so far as He is rational, God is nowhere so properly as in the soul - in the innermost of the soul.
Everything is meant to be lost, that the soul may stand in unhampered nothingness.
When God sends his angel to the soul it becomes the one who knows for sure.
Where intuition finds, love follows, and memory and all the soul as well.
God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.
The soul loves the body. And consider too how it is that the body is more in the soul than the soul is in the body.
Philosophers say the Soul is double-faced, her upper face gazes at God all the time and her lower face looks somewhat down, informing the senses; and the upper face, which is the summit of the soul, is in eternity and has nothing to do with time: it knows nothing of time or of body.
Treat all things as if they were loaned to you without any ownership - whether body or soul, sense or strength, external goods or honors, house or hall...everything.
If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.