The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of animal behavior.

the Divine Nature wounds and perhaps destroys us merely by being what it is.

In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.

Morality is a mountain which we cannot climb by our own efforts; and if we could we should only perish in the ice and unbreathable air of the summit, lacking those wings with which the rest of the journey has to be accomplished. For it is from there that the real ascent begins. The ropes and axes are 'done away' and the rest is a matter of flying.

When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.

The only thing one can usually change in one's situation is oneself. And yet one can't change that either-only ask Our Lord to do so.

He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles.