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.

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

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

O, Heart, remember thee That Man is none, Save One.

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

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?'

Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of hatred - may not even be encumbrances.