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

Faith is a dark night for man, but in this very way it gives him light.

My sole occupation is love.

Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.

The conditions of a solitary bird are five: The first, that it flies to the highest point; The Second, that it does not suffer for company, not even of its own kind; The Third, that it aims its beak to the skies; The Fourth, that it does not have a definite color; The Fifth, that it sings very softly.

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.

It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.