It is a fair trade and an equal exchange: to the extent that you depart from things, thus far, no more and no less, God enters into you with all that is his, as far as you have stripped yourself of yourself in all things. It is here that you should begin, whatever the cost, for it is here that you will find true peace, and nowhere else.

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

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.

Whatever thou sayest of God is untrue.

For then I knew my soul - every soul - has always held Him.

The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

When a man sees the one in all things, he is above mere understanding.