People should think less about what they ought to do and more about what they ought to be. If only their being were good, their works would shine forth brightly. Do not imagine that you can ground your salvation upon actions; it must rest on what you are.

One must not always think so much about what one should do, but rather what one should be. Our works do not ennoble us; but we must ennoble our works.

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

Where intuition finds, love follows, and memory and all the soul as well.

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

What our Lord did was done with the intent, and this alone, that he might be with us and we with him.

To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process