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.

If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years.

What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God.

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

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

Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer.

Rid yourself of anything that is not directed toward God.