“Love. Meditation of Pure Love has only one intention, that she might always love faithfully without wishing for any reward, and the Soul cannot do this unless she is deprived of herself, for Faithful Love would not deign to have… — Margaret Porette Copy Share Image
“Reason. Lady Love, I ask yet one more question: why does this book say that this Soul has everything and yet has nothing? Love. That is true, says Love, for through divine grace this Soul has God, and he who has God has everything, and it says too that she has nothing, because everything which this Soul has within her… — Margaret Porette Copy Share
“First, that we should love God with our whole heart—that is to say that our thoughts should always be truly directed towards him: and with our whole soul, that is that we should say nothing but what is true, even though we die for it: and with our whole strength, that is that we should perform all our works solely… — Margaret Porette Copy Share
“Love. Already, says Love, I have said that such Souls value every affliction of their heart—both for body and for soul—as highly as if it were prosperity, and prosperity as highly as adversity. And this is true, says Love, if such things came to them as highly as adversity. And this is true, says Love, if such things came to… — Margaret Porette Copy Share
“ How this Soul has the name of the change into which Love has changed her. Chapter 83. Love. So such a Soul has no name, and therefore she has the name of the change into which Love has changed her. So do the watercourses of which we have spoken, who are called ‘sea’, for they are all sea as… — Margaret Porette Copy Share
“Love. Meditation of Pure Love has only one intention, that she might always love faithfully without wishing for any reward, and the Soul cannot… — Margaret Porette Copy Share Image
“ How such Souls have no will at all. Chapter 9.1 Love. If anyone were to ask such free souls, untroubled and at peace,… — Margaret Porette Copy Share Image
“This Soul, says Love, has six wings, 4 just as the Seraphim. She no longer wishes for anything which comes by an intermediary, for… — Margaret Porette Copy Share Image
“Reason. And who are you, Love? says Reason. Are you not also one of the Virtues, and one of us, even though you be… — Margaret Porette Copy Share Image
“Charity is obedient1 to no created thing, but only to Love. Charity has nothing of her own, and even if she had anything, she… — Margaret Porette Copy Share Image
“ How this Soul swims in the sea of joy. Chapter 28. Love. Such a Soul, 1 says Love, swims in the sea of… — Margaret Porette Copy Share Image
“Now listen, Reason, says Love, to understand better what you are asking about. A man who is on fire feels no cold, a man… — Margaret Porette Copy Share Image
“On these two crutches is the Soul supported, and so she need pay no heed to her enemies to the right or to the… — Margaret Porette Copy Share Image
