The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.

If I say that God is good, that is not true. God is not good. I am good, and if I say that God is wise, that is not true. I am wiser than he is.

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.

I maintain that all sorrow comes from love of those things of which loss deprives me.

What good is it to me that Mary gave birth to the son of God fourteen hundred years ago, and I do not also give birth to the Son of God in my time and in my culture? We are all meant to be mothers of God. God is always needing to be born.

When the Soul wants to experience something she throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it.

Let God operate in thee; Hand the work over to Him and do not disquiet thyself as to whether or no He is working with nature or above nature, for His are both nature and grace.