Silence is God's first language.

Silence is God's first language.

Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation.

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.

In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God.

See that you are not suddenly saddened by the adversities of this world, for you do not know the good they bring, being ordained in the judgments of God for the everlasting joy of the elect.

Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications.