He who loves God with all his heart dreads neither death, torment, judgment, nor hell, for perfect love opens a sure passage to God.
(p. 68)
There are between Almighty God and a devout soul many spiritual visitings, sweet and inward conversations, great gifts of grace, many consolations, much heavenly peace, and wondrous familiarity of the blessed presence of God.
(p. 75)
(Said by God:) He who belittles the least of My saints does no honor to the greatest, for I have made both the less and the greater... They are all one, fast-bound and knit together... They feel all alike, and they will all alike, and they love all together in unity; and they love Me much more than themselves or their own merits. They are rapt above themselves and drawn from their own love and wholly turned to My love in which they rest in eternal fruition. There is nothing that can turn them away from My love or thrust them down out of their glory, for they are full of eternal truth and burn inwardly in their souls with the fire of everlasting charity that never will be quenched.
(p. 196)
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