Alphabetarius

wherefore he studies to please
A Perform the devotion that you do as much as you are able, and if you are not capable of the whole, let there be a will in the mind, by willing as if you were able.
Is Hence, by punishing or by forgiving, this alone is aimed at, so that the life of the man may be corrected.
Is / Appolloni Let there be instruction in my action. Thus it is said, nothing else is to be done except to be vacant for God, and let those works be done on that day, unless it be perfected on that day in hymns and psalms and spiritual songs.
A Bitterness
A little bitterness in the throat is better than eternal punishment in the bowels.
Beñ To behold and to love God is sweet. If there is any joy of the present time, it should always be managed so that the bitterness of the future judgment never recedes from the memory.
A Love He who is fearful of the love of the body loves himself poorly, and likewise [he who lives] in hatred.
Is My love is my weight; by it I am carried. It is not a weight that tends there, but to its own place.
Sapno Vain glory and love itself exalt.
A The love of temporal things is birdlime sticky substance used to trap birds for the wings of the spirit.
Is In what pain and madness, and love itself makes easy things and makes them nothing.
Is One can say in some things: I cannot fast, I cannot abstain from meats, I cannot give my things to all the poor. If it is said thus, I say to you: if it is said, I cannot love, I cannot [give] myself to those sinning, indulge in prayer, it does not mean that which is done.
Is There are pages in many places: love the good in which all goods are, and it shall suffice.
Is Regarding the loving of your temptations: whatever it seeks for itself, hear it.
Is Lord, you have promised all goods if I love you. Give [yourself] alone, and it suffices.
Is It is not said, "It is loved," but it is given elsewhere by itself. We are attacked against him.
Is He who loves his own [things] more will lose them. Do not love, lest you lose. Do not love, and through this, do not lose in eternal life.
Is If we love badly, then you have hated. You have hated well, then you have loved.
Is Happy are those who have hated by guarding, lest they lose by loving.
Is The parent is to be loved, but the Creator is to be preferred.
Is Lord, what am I that you would command me to love you, and unless I do it, you are angry with me and threaten me with huge things to say of my [failings].
Is Just as love, if it is of charity, is the foundation of the church, so the love of the world is the foundation of the city.
Is There is nothing that can be persuaded by one who loves that cannot be felt as sweet.
Is Love will absorb you entirely, or it knows how to devour its own entirely; do not think [otherwise].
Is Many love themselves, who for the sake of others are condemned.
Is If anyone experiences himself for the study of his own placation, he questions himself more subtly than how much he loves. For indeed, the greatest thing of the mind is hardly the love that, while loving, it submits and raises high.
6 The immortals, by whose edges [they reach] the age.