For true devotion must issue from the heart, and consist in the truth and substances alone of what is represented by spiritual things; all the rest is affection and attachment proceeding from imperfection; and in order that one may pass to any kind of perfection it is necessary for such desires to be killed.

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.

Not to follow the advice of our confessor is pride and a want of faith.

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

He who avoids prayer is avoiding everything that is good.

Contemplation is nothing else but a secret, peaceful, and loving infusion of God, which, if admitted, will set the soul on fire with the Spirit of love.

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