In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessions and human success, but rather on how much we have loved.

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

Strive always to confess your sins with a deep knowledge of your own wretchedness and with clarity and purity.

The divine awakening produces in the soul of the perfect a flame of love which is a participate of that living flame which is the Holy Spirit Himself...this is the operation of the Holy Spirit in the soul that is transformed in love.

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

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.

Never listen to accounts of the frailty of others; and if anyone should complain to you of another, humbly ask him not to speak about him at all.