Once a man came to me - it was not too long ago - and said that he had given away much landed property and many goods for his own sake so that he might save his soul. Then I thought: 'How little and how insignificant is what you have let go of! It is blindness and foolishness for you to continue looking at all you've let go of. If, however, you've let go of yourself, then you've really let go.'

My Lord told me a joke. And seeing Him laugh has done more for me than any scripture I will ever read.

Think more about who you are and less about what you do, for if you are just, your ways will be just.

There is nothing so much like God in all the universe as silence.

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

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.

Whoever possesses God in their being has Him in a divine manner, and He shines out to them in all things; for them all things taste of God and in all things it is God's image that they see.