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

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.

They say, "God told me", or "God replied to me". And yet most of the time they are talking to themselves.

The soul that walks in love neither tires others nor grows tired.

There is nothing better or morenecessary than love.

The eternal spring is hidden in this living bread for our life's sake, although it is night. It is here calling out to creatures; and they satisfy their thirst, although in darkness, because it is night. This living spring that I long for, I see in this bread of life, although it is night.

Silence is God's first language.