The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God.

Your own efforts "did not bring it to pass," only God-but rejoice if God found a use for your efforts in His work.

There is nothing so much like God in all the universe as silence.

There is in the soul a something in which God dwells, and there is in the soul a something in which the soul dwells in God.

God does not work in all hearts alike, but according to the preparation and sensitivity He finds in each.

Existence itself stands in need of nothing, for it lacks nothing, whereas everything else needs it, because outside of it there is nothing. Nothingness stands in need of existence, as a sick man lacks health and is in need. Health has no need of a sick man. To want nothing, therefore, characterizes the highest perfection, is fullest and purest existence.

A life of rest and peace in God is good; a life of pain lived in patience is still better; but to have peace in a life of pain is best of all.