Let God and all his creation teach you what your sins are.

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

Is it not shameful and a great scandal that we poor latecomers, we Christians, aided by grace, the Faith, and the sacraments, should be running about like blind hens, ignorant of our own self and of the depth within us?

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.

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!

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

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