One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.

The soul loves the body. And consider too how it is that the body is more in the soul than the soul is in the body.

It is permissible to take life's blessings with both hands provided thou dost know thyself prepared in the opposite event to take them just as gladly. This applies to food and friends and kindred, to anything God gives and takes away... As long as God is satisfied do thou rest content. If he is pleased to want something else of thee, still rest content.

There is no stopping place in this life--nor is there ever one for any person, no matter how far along the way one's gone.

God holds each of us by a string. When we sin, we cut the string. But God ties it up again, making a knot. Each time our wrongdoing cuts the string, God ties another knot drawing us up closer to Him.

We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.

The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.