Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself!

To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.

Rid yourself of anything that is not directed toward God.

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

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!

As a good wine must be kept in a good cask, so a wholesome body is the proper foundation for a well-appointed inner ground.

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.