When there is no love, pour in love and you shall draw out love.

In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.

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.

However high be your endeavors, unless you renounce and subjugate your own will - unless you forget yourself and all that pertains to yourself - not one step will you advance on the road to perfection.

Strive always to confess your sins with a deep knowledge of your own wretchedness and with clarity and purity.

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

If you lose an opportunity you will be like one who lets the bird fly away; you will never get it back.