Great Throughts Treasury

"All creatures have existed in the divine essence, as in their exemplar. So far as they conform to the divine idea, all beings were, before their creation, one thing with the essence of God. (God creates into time what was and is in eternity.) Eternally, all creatures are God in God"

"There is nothing pleasurable save what is uniform with the most inmost depths of the divine nature."

"A vision is to be esteemed the more noble the more intellectual it is, the more it is stripped of all image and approaches the state of pure contemplation."

"All who allow themselves a wrong liberty make themselves their own aim and object."

"Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is not quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr."