Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation.

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

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

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.

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

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

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