If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.

In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing.

Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

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

God does not lead all His servants by one road, nor in one way, nor at one time; for God is in all things; and that man is not serving God aright, who can only serve Him in his own self-chosen way.

Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.