Rid yourself of anything that is not directed toward God.

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

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.

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

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.

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

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.