Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

I will be silent and will hear what God will say in me...If God wishes to speak to me, let him enter. I will not go out.

God is in all things, but so far as God is Divine and so far as He is rational, God is nowhere so properly as in the soul - in the innermost of the soul

To grasp God in all things--this is the sign of your new birth.

If you seek the kernel, then you must break the shell. An likewise, if you would know the reality of Nature, you must destroy the appearance, and the farther you go beyond the appearance, the nearer you will be to the essence.

Nothing is sharper than suffering, nothing is sweeter than to have suffered.

The most powerful prayer, one wellnigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind. The quieter it is the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is.