In the way of God, thoughts count very little. Love does it all.

Let all our employment be to know God: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him.

If we are truly devoted to doing God's will, pain and pleasure won't make any difference to us.

My God, since you are with me and since, by Your will, I must occupy myself with external things, please grant me the grace to remain with You, in Your presence. Work with me, so that my work might be the very best. Receive as an offering of love both my work and all my affections.

I have quitted all forms of devotion and set prayers but those to which my state obliges me. And I make it my business only to persevere in His holy presence, wherein I keep myself by a simple attention, and a general fond regard to GOD, which I may call an actual presence of GOD, or, to speak better, an habitual, silent, and secret conversation of the soul with GOD, which often causes me joys and raptures inwardly, and sometimes also outwardly, so great that I am forced to use means to moderate them, and prevent their appearance to others.

Emptiness is that which frees us from religiosity and leads us to true spirituality.

Loving God and loving one's neighbor are really the same thing.