Alphabetarius

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how much he rises, burning in the love of God. For those who had previously been cold in the past time, afterwards, by loving, he burned strongly.
Is

This life is full of sorrows; it is spent with weeping, and yet it is loved with tears.
Is

Temporal things, if they are not loved, are blessed; if they are loved, they are brought in [as burdens].
Is

Whether they are loved well or not, they do not profit, because they pervert the heart of those possessing them with a certain sweetness. As the disciples were departing, the mind did not depart from love, but burned, kindled by the fire of desire.
Is

To the one loving, being sprinkled once is not sufficient, because the force of love multiplies intent in inquiries.
Is

As often as one kisses the Lord, so often is he pricked by his love.
Is

Saint Magdalene stood under the fire of the valleys; the force of love was in her.
Is

There is no branch of good work of any cupidity if it does not remain in the root of love.
Is

The love of God is never idle; it works great things if it exists; if it ceases to work, it is not love.
Oli

He who admits the sweetness of the celestial heart as much as is possible, has perfectly recognized those things which he loved on earth; he leaves them all freely.
Is

For when things are possessed by love, they are left behind with pain.
Bñ

The force of love is the violence that conquers; love alone triumphs.
Is

Concerning God: nothing is impossible for those who are, nothing is difficult for those who love.
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Let each one study to love and to be loved, to show himself pleasant and affable, and to support willingly the infirmities of others, both of custom and of body.
Is

There are three bonds by which we are constrained to God: shame, fear, and love.
Is

Hard and senseless are the sons of Adam; whom such great kindness, such a flame, such a huge ardor of love does not soften.
Is

He who loves ardently runs swiftly and hastens more quickly.
Is

For in order to show how much he loved you, he willed to offer himself by nothing other than dying by death.
Is

He is entirely to be loved for the reason that he is entirely most high, and I am worthy of wisdom; he is plainly worthy of death who refuses to live for you, Lord.
Is

Labor hardly moves me towards you?.
Is

If I no longer feel passions, love, and do not desire much to be loved; desire to die in love and to live in tribulation.
Is

Just as wine returns, so it makes one fervent and one's own.
Is

The flowery one loves the homeland, the flower of Seraphim to be, and willingly among the leaves of the meadow, the flower of the field and the lily of the valleys.
Is

The same shows you in death, nor [does] the son of God [show] you in the present.
Is

This is the custom of the intensity of the force of love, that he who always thinks [of it] believes that he ignores no one else.
Is

Love holy scripture, and you will not love the vices of the flesh.
Bñ

If you seek beauty, love the profession; it is the clean water which washes the face of the day from every stain and heart?.