But no sooner is your vessel emptied than it is filled. For nothing can remain empty. If it is not full of something material, it will fill up with air. Just so, the heart is a vessel that cannot remain empty. As soon as you have emptied it of all those transitory things you loved inordinately, it is filled ... with gentle heavenly divine love that brings you to the water of grace.
(p. 109)
I made these things to serve my rational creatures; I did not intend my creatures to make themselves servants and slaves to the world's pleasures... They owe their first love to me. Everything else they should love and possess, as I told you, not as if they owned it but as something lent them.
(p. 97)
{Those who give up their material attachments} find my burning charity. This charity is a fire that comes forth from me and carries off their heart and spirit, accepting the sacrifice of their desires.
(p. 155)
So it is with the soul when she has come to taste the fire of my divine charity, having passed through this life with loving charity for me and for her neighbors, with that unitive love which caused her to shed tears. She never ceases her constant offering of her desires, blessed now and painlessly tearful. Hers are not physical tears now -- for she has been dried out in the furnace -- but the Holy Spirit's tears of fire.
(pp. 170-171)
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