God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.

We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.

Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love a cow - for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort. They do not rightly love God, when they love Him for their own advantage.

There is something in the soul that is so akin to God that it is one with Him... It has nothing in common with anything created.

Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly all nature seeks God and works toward [God].

God cannot know himself without me.

That which a man acquires by contemplation he should spend in love.