The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

There is no stopping place in this life--nor is there ever one for any person, no matter how far along the way one's gone.

I do not find God outside myself or conceive him except as my own and in me.

The soul must long for God in order to be set aflame by God's love; but if the soul cannot yet feel the longing, then it must long for the longing. To long for the longing is also from God.

When I think of God's Kingdom, I am compelled to be silent because of its immensity, because God's Kingdom is none other than God himself with all His riches.

The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.

Things are all made from nothing; hence their true source is nothing.