Though it may be called a nescience, and unknowing, yet there is in it more than all knowing and understanding without it; for this unknowing lures and attracts you from all understood things, and from yourself as well.

If the seal is pressed completely through the wax so that no wax remains without being impressed by the seal, then it becomes indistinguishably one with the seal. Similarly the soul becomes completely united with God.

The love by which we love God is the very same love with which God has first loved us.

Wisdom consists in doing the next think you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.

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

If I say that God is good, that is not true. God is not good. I am good, and if I say that God is wise, that is not true. I am wiser than he is.

The human spirit must transcend number and break through multiplicity, and God will break through him; and just as He