People who have let go of themselves are so pure that the world cannot harm them.

God is in all things, but so far as God is Divine and so far as He is rational, God is nowhere so properly as in the soul - in the innermost of the soul

The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the shell.

Behold how all those people are merchants who shun great sins and would like to be good and do good deeds in God's honour, such as fasts, vigils, prayers, and similar good deeds of all kinds. They do all these things so that our Lord may give them something, or so that God may do something dear to them. All these people are merchants.

God is a great underground river that no one can dam up and no one can stop.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

God is nearer to me than I am to myself; He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it.