Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like a long lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather than hotter.

For true devotion must issue from the heart, and consist in the truth and substances alone of what is represented by spiritual things; all the rest is affection and attachment proceeding from imperfection; and in order that one may pass to any kind of perfection it is necessary for such desires to be killed.

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

The window of the soul cleansed perfectly and made completely transparent by the divine light

God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.

The eternal spring is hidden in this living bread for our life's sake, although it is night. It is here calling out to creatures; and they satisfy their thirst, although in darkness, because it is night. This living spring that I long for, I see in this bread of life, although it is night.