Lord, I shall see you no more with the eyes of the flesh.

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

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

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

In the inner stillness where meditation leads, the Spirit secretly anoints the soul and heals our deepest wounds.

A Christian should always remember that the value of his good works is not based on their number and excellence, but on the love of God which prompts him to do these things.

Would that men might come at last to see that it is quite impossible to reach the thicket of the riches and wisdom of God except by first entering the thicket of much suffering, in such a way that the soul finds there its consolation and desire. The soul that longs for divine wisdom chooses first, and in truth, to enter the thicket of the cross.