God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received.

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

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.

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

You have within you many strong and cruel enemies to overcome. You must know that there are still a thousand ties which you must break. No one can tell you what they are; only you can tell by looking at yourself and into your heart.

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

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