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

Have a great love for those who contradict and fail to love you, for in this way love is begotten in a heart that has no love.

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

If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection.

Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.

Live in faith and hope, though it be in darkness, for in this darkness God protects the soul. Cast your care upon God for you are His and He will not forget you. Do not think that He is leaving you alone, for that would be to wrong Him.

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