Never listen to accounts of the frailty of others; and if anyone should complain to you of another, humbly ask him not to speak about him at all.

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.

Live as though only God and yourself were in this world, so that your heart may not be detained by anything human.

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

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.

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.

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