I have often said that a person who wishes to begin a good life should be like one who draws a circle. Let him or her get the center in the right place and keep it so and the circumference will be good.

Between God and Me there is no 'Between'.

If we keep our eyes fixed on God alone, then truly he must work in us and nothing, neither the crowd nor any place can hinder him in this.

If anyone went on for a thousand years asking of life: 'Why are you living?' life, if it could answer, would only say, 'I live so that I may live.' That is because life lives out of its own ground and springs from its own source, and so it lives without asking why it is itself living.

The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the shell.

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.

Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly all nature seeks God and works toward [God].