The Soul Turns to Fire

Then, by the virtue of love, is the lover
transformed in the beloved and the beloved is
transformed in the lover, and like unto hard
iron which so assumeth the colour, heat,
virtue, and form of the fire that it almost
turneth into fire, so doth the soul, united
with God through the perfect grace of divine
love, itself almost become divine and
transformed in God."

- Angela of Foligno [13th-14th C.],
"The Divine Consolation," Ch. 6 -