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.

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.

They say, "God told me", or "God replied to me". And yet most of the time they are talking to themselves.

All the powers of soul and body,memory, understanding, and will, interior and exterior senses, thedesires of spirit and of sense, all workin and by love.

God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever His glance falls He turns all things to beauty.

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.

Yearning: It needs to hurt in order to be worthy of the word. Otherwise it is just wanting.