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

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.

In the school of the spirit, man learns wisdom through humility.

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.

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

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

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