Love makes me God, and Thee, O God, man.
Where there is one, there is no love. Where two are united, there is only a phantom of love. Where three are united, there is love. Thy name is Love, because Thy name is the One Trinity.
Wert Thou one, Thou wouldst be neither love nor hatred.
Wert Thou a duality, Thou wouldst be an alternation of love and hatred. But Thou art a trinity, therefore art Thou love, and in Thee there is no darkness nor alternation.
Love knows nothing of time and space. It is beyond time and beyond space. For it, one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
When I am joined to Thee by love, then heaven and earth exist no more — there is only God. Neither is there then an I and a Thou — there is only God.
Love has three hypostases: virginity, knowledge, and holiness. Without virginity love is not mercy but earthly selfishness and passion. Without knowledge love is not wisdom but madness. Without holiness love is not might but weakness. When passion, madness, and weakness are united, then hell comes into being, which the devil calls his love.
When my soul is a most pure maiden, and my consciousness clear-seeing wisdom, and my spirit life-creating holiness, then I am love, which coincides with Thy love. Through love I see Thee as myself, and Thou seest me as Thyself.
Through love I behold not myself but only Thee. Through love Thou beholdest not Thyself but only me.
Love sacrifices itself, and feels its sacrifice not as giving but as receiving.
Children of earth: the word is the longest prayer.
Does earthly love exist, my neighbors ask me? Exactly as much as an earthly God! Earthly love, like all things earthly, is only a dream and a fable of love. As much as idols resemble God, so much does earthly love resemble Love. As much as smoke resembles flame, so much does your love resemble divine love.
When you change a gold piece into pennies, you do not call the pennies a gold piece but pennies. Why then do you call divine love, minted small and ground into ash by time and space, love and not ashes?
O Lord, vouchsafe me the love whereby Thou livest and givest life.
Vouchsafe me Thy love, O Lord, and I shall be free from all laws.
Make Thy love dwell in me, and love will make me dwell in Thee.