Have a great love for those who contradict and fail to love you, for in this way love is begotten in a heart that has no love.

Never relax, for you will not attain to the possession of true spiritual delights if first you do not learn to deny your every desire.

He who loses an opportunity is like the man who lets a bird fly from his hand, for he will never recover it.

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

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.

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

In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessions and human success, but rather on how much we have loved.