However softly we speak, God is so close to us that he can hear us; nor do we need wings to go in search of him, but merely to seek solitude and contemplate him within ourselves, without being surprised to find such a good Guest there.

In sorrow and suffering, go straight to God with confidence, and you will be strengthened, enlightened and instructed.

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

He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he can hardly catch it again.

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

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.

The eternal tide flows hid in Living Bread. That with its Heavenly Life too be fed.