Silence is God's first language.

Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.

Would that men might come at last to see that it is quite impossible to reach the thicket of the riches and wisdom of God except by first entering the thicket of much suffering, in such a way that the soul finds there its consolation and desire. The soul that longs for divine wisdom chooses first, and in truth, to enter the thicket of the cross.

Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing.

If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory and will in nothing but good works, careless of danger or fatigue.

To love is to be transformed into what we love. To love God is therefore to be transformed into God.

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