The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.

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.

Everything is full and pure at its source and precisely there, not outside.

As long as I am this or that, I am not all things.

Grace pours all beauty into the soul ... The soul means the world.

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.

Outward as well as inward morality helps to form the idea of a true Christian freedom. We are right to lay stress on inwardness, but in this world there is no inwardness without an outward expression.