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

One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years.

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

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.

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.