“Before creation Love was. After creation love is made. When love is consummated, creation will cease to be, and Love will be forever.”

“It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential.”

“The chief element of creation is love and the chief action of love is Art.”

“To redeem creation the saint wages war on the entire fabric of creation, with the bare weapons of truth and love.”

“If you love the art, you must love the artist. If you love the Creation, you must love the Creator.”

“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.”

“Creation's being is God's pleasure, creation's beauty God's glory; beauty reveals the shining of an uncreated light. … Creation is only a splendor that hangs upon that life of love and knowledge, and only by grace; it is first and foremost a surface, a shining fabric of glory, whose inmost truth is its aesthetic correspondence to the beauty of divine love. … It is delight that constitutes creation, and so only delight can comprehend it, see it aright, understand its grammar. Only in loving creation's beauty—only in seeing that creation truly is beauty—does one apprehend what creation is.”

“CREATING SACRED SPACE MIRRORS GOD’S CREATION. OUR CHALLENGE AS CO-CREATORS IS TO MIRROR GOD’S LOVE AND BEAUTY IN ALL OUR CREATIONS.”

“Love is anterior to life,
Posterior to death,
Initial of creation, and
The exponent of breath.”

“This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.”