I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth.

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.

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

My Lord told me a joke. And seeing Him laugh has done more for me than any scripture I will ever read.

Outward as well as inward morality helps to form the idea of a true Christian freedom. We are right to lay stress on inwardness, but in this world there is no inwardness without an outward expression.

Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love a cow - for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort. They do not rightly love God, when they love Him for their own advantage.

God must act and pour himself into you the moment he finds you ready. Don't imagine that God can be compared to an earthly carpenter, who acts or doesn't act, as he wishes; who can will to do something or leave it undone, according to his pleasure. It is not that way with God: where and when God finds you ready, he must act and overflow into you, just as when the air is clear and pure, the sun must overflow into it and cannot refrain from doing that.