Everything depends on this: a fathomless sinking into a fathomless nothingness.

As a good wine must be kept in a good cask, so a wholesome body is the proper foundation for a well-appointed inner ground.

In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you and God. Ask yourself. Then listen!

A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.

If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.

God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.

Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial humility.