To be properly expressed a thing must proceed from within, moved by its form: it must come, not in from without but out from within.

Be ready at all times for the gifts of God, and always for new ones.

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

Remember this: all suffering comes to an end. And whatever you suffer authentically, God has suffered from it first.

If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God.

If anyone went on for a thousand years asking of life: 'Why are you living?' life, if it could answer, would only say, 'I live so that I may live.' That is because life lives out of its own ground and springs from its own source, and so it lives without asking why it is itself living.

There is no greater valor nor no sterner fight. He who would be what he ought to be must stop being what he is.