The way to deeper knowledge of God is through the lonely valleys of soul poverty and abnegation of all things. The blessed ones who possess the Kingdom are they who have repudiated every external thing and have rooted from their hearts all sense of possessing. These are the 'poor in spirit.'

Anything that God has declared that we should be we can be.

Shall it be a religion or shall it be Christ? Shall it be churchianity or shall it be Jesus Christ? Shall it be pride or shall it be humility in Jesus Christ?

The meek man is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of his own inferiority. He has accepted God's estimate of his own life: In himself, nothing; In God, everything. He knows well that the world will never see him as God sees him and he has stopped caring.

I want the presence of God Himself, or I don't want anything at all to do with religion... I want all that God has or I don't want any.

My miseries have always come out of my own flesh, never from any burden Jesus has laid on me.

I have found God to be cordial and generous and in every way easy to live with.