God is nearer to me than I am to myself; He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it.

Nothing will be able to hinder us, if we desire and seek God alone, and take pleasure in nothing else.

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.

That which a man acquires by contemplation he should spend in love.

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

God is the word that speaks itself.

Whoever has God truly as a companion, is with him in all places, both on the streets, and among people, as well as in church, or in the desert or in a monastic cell...Why is this so? It is so because such a person possesses God alone, keeping their gaze fixed upon God, and thus all things become God for him or her. Such people be a God in all their deeds and in all the places they go, and it is God alone who is the author of all their deeds.