Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect.

Philosophers say the Soul is double-faced, her upper face gazes at God all the time and her lower face looks somewhat down, informing the senses; and the upper face, which is the summit of the soul, is in eternity and has nothing to do with time: it knows nothing of time or of body.

Our bodily food is changed into us, but our spiritual food changes us into it.

To be properly expressed a thing must proceed from within, moved by its form: it must come, not in from without but out from within.

I maintain that all sorrow comes from love of those things of which loss deprives me.

Compassion is where peace and justice kiss

I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God.