Maria, you want to give your gifts, but I prepare for them because I want to blend my gifts with yours. I would like grace, but with my own will, and in this way, I cannot have it. I would like to have your favor, but with love and the special favor of creatures, and that is not possible. I would like your love along with love for myself, but I cannot have it. I would like to dwell under your cloak, but also under the cloak of my comfort. It is not right.
(Mary Magdalene de’ Pazzi /1566–1607/, Probatione II)
