2. A prudent lover considers not so much the gift of the lover, as the love of the giver.
He looks more at the good-will than the value, and sets his Beloved above all his gifts.
A generous lover rests not in the gift, but in me above every gift.
All is not lost, if sometimes thou hast not that feeling [of devotion] towards me or my saints, which thou wouldst have.
That good and delightful affection, which thou sometimes perceivest, is the effect of present grace, and a certain foretaste of thy heavenly country.
But thou must not rely too much upon it, because it goes and comes.
But to fight against the evil motions of the mind which arise, and to despise the suggestions of the devil, is a sign of virtue and of great merit.
3. Let not therefore strange fancies trouble thee of what subject soever they be that are suggested to thee.
Keep thy resolution firm, and thy intentions upright towards God.