Antoinette Bourignon
1616-1680
Speak with God who is the Fountain of all Light.
He can teach you more in one moment than all the men
of the world would do in a thousand years.
So soon as you shall have found his conversation,
you will not be able to take pleasure any longer in any other.
Speak to him always, until he answers you. He will do it assuredly.
According as you shall separate yourself from the creatures,
accordingly you draw the nearer to God:
You need but to remove the hindrances, and this Divine Sun will shine fully
into your soul, warming it with his love.
He has infinitely more desire and affection to receive us, than we have to seek him.
...He rejects nobody, he rather embraces them as the father did his prodigal son.
You are his child, and the work of his hands.
Go to your father with great confidence. He Loves you. He seeks you and calls you.
Do not delay any longer. Go forward, seek no longer for any other thing but him alone.