Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.

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.

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

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

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?

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

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