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.

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

Judge yourself; if you sincerely and humbly do that, you will not be judged by God.

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

He who desires to become a spiritual man must not be ever taking note of others, and above all of their sins, lest he fall into wrath and bitterness, and a judging spirit towards his neighbours.

God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.

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