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. And therefore if you want to discover nature's nakedness you must destroy its symbols, and the farther you get in the nearer you come to its essence. When you come to the One that gathers all things up into itself, there you must stay.

Apprehend God in all things, for God is in all things. Every single creature is full of God and is a book about God. Every creature is a word of God.

People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are.

Though it may be called a nescience, and unknowing, yet there is in it more than all knowing and understanding without it; for this unknowing lures and attracts you from all understood things, and from yourself as well.

The more we have the less we own.

By humility, out of an enemy He has made a friend, which is more than to have created a new earth.

He who can make distinction in God without number or quantity, knows that the three persons of the Trinity are one God.