If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved. The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of Divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for until the cord be broken, the bird cannot fly.

Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.

Have a great love for those who contradict and fail to love you, for in this way love is begotten in a heart that has no love.

In the inner stillness where meditation leads, the Spirit secretly anoints the soul and heals our deepest wounds.

Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.

Never relax, for you will not attain to the possession of true spiritual delights if first you do not learn to deny your every desire.