Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly all nature seeks God and works toward [God].

Every creature is a word of God.

For a heart to be perfectly ready it has to be perfectly empty. In this condition it has attained its maximum capacity.

[W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge.

The less you feel and the more firmly you believe, the more praiseworthy is your faith and the more it will be esteemed and appreciated; for real faith is much more than a mere opinion of man. In it we have true knowledge: in truth, we lack nothing save true faith.

What good is it to me that Mary gave birth to the son of God fourteen hundred years ago, and I do not also give birth to the Son of God in my time and in my culture? We are all meant to be mothers of God. God is always needing to be born.

By humility, out of an enemy He has made a friend, which is more than to have created a new earth.