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

He who loses an opportunity is like the man who lets a bird fly from his hand, for he will never recover it.

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.

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.

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.

In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God.

Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications.