Love will be at liberty, and free from all worldly affection, lest its interior sight be hindered, lest it suffer itself to be entangled with any temporal interest, or cast down by losses.
Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing stronger, nothing higher, nothing wider, nothing more pleasant, nothing fuller or better in heaven or earth: for love proceeds from God, and cannot rest but in God, above all things created.
4. The lover flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free, and is not held.
He gives all for all, and has all in all; because he rests in one sovereign good above all, from whom all good flows and proceeds.
He looks not at the gifts, but turns himself to the giver, above all goods.
Love often knows no measure, but is fervent above all measure.
Love feels no burthen, values no labours, would willingly do more than it can; complains not of impossibility, because it conceives that it may and can do all things.
It is able therefore to do any thing, and it performs and effects many things, where he that loves not faints and lies down.
5. Love watches, and sleeping slumbers not.