A saint is a person who does almost everything any other decent person does, only somewhat better and with a totally different motive.

Great is his faith who dares believe his own eyes.

Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.

If we may credit certain hints contained in the lives of the saints, love raises the spirit above the sphere of reverence and worship into one of laughter and dalliance: a sphere in which the soul says: 'Shall I, a gnat which dances in Thy ray, Dare to be reverent?'

Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century.

The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.

To one who waits, all things reveal themselves so long as you have the courage not to deny in the darkness what you have seen in the light.