It is the mind that makes the body.

My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.

The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.

But what marvel that I was thus carried away to vanities, and went out from Thy presence, O my God, when men were set before me as models.

The good angels, therefore, hold cheap all that knowledge of material and transitory things which the demons are so proud of possessing,—not that they are ignorant of these things, but because the love of God, whereby they are sanctified, is very dear to them.

The education of the human race, represented by the people of God, has advanced, like that of an individual, through certain epochs, or, as it were, ages, so that it might gradually rise from earthly to heavenly things, and from the visible to the invisible.

So I was confounded, and converted: and I joyed, O my God, that the One Only Church, the body of Thine Only Son (wherein the name of Christ had been put upon me as an infant), had no taste for infantine conceits; nor in her sound doctrine maintained any tenet which should confine Thee, the Creator of all, in space, however great and large, yet bounded every where by the limits of a human form.

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.

He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.

Holiness consists simply in doing God's will, and being just what God wants us to be.

From the moment we claim the truth of being the beloved, we are faced with the call to become who we are.

The worlds of Truth (love) and illusion (fear) are like parallel universes; with every thought we make a choice which one to inhabit