11 Quotes by Angela of Foligno

O my soul, how can you refrain from plunging yourself ever deeper and deeper into the love of Christ, who did not forget you in life or in death, but who willed to give Himself wholly to you, and to unite you to Himself forever?

Our perfection certainly consists in knowing God and ourselves.

By virtue of love is the lover transformed in the beloved and the beloved transformed in the lover.

So great was my joy in God that I took no heed of looking at the angels and the saints, because all their goodness and all their beauty was from Him and in Him.

Without humility of heart all the other virtues by which one runs toward God seem – and are – absolutely worthless.

There is neither father, nor mother, nor son, nor any other person whatsoever who can embrace the object beloved with so great a love as that wherewith God embraceth the soul.

If we but paused for a moment to consider attentively what takes place in this Sacrament, I am sure that the thought of Christ’s love for us would transform the coldness of our hearts into a fire of love and gratitude.

This whole world is full of God!

Humility exists only in those who are poor enough to see that they possess nothing of their own.