In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature.

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

The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive.

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

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.

You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One.

In the school of the spirit, man learns wisdom through humility.