To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.

Do not cling to the symbols, but get to the inner truth!

My children, mark me. I pray you. Know! God loves my soul so much that his very life and being depend upon his loving me, whether he would or no. To stop God loving me would be to rob him of his Godhood; for God is love no less than he is truth; as he is good, so is he love as well. It is the absolute truth, as God lives... If anyone would ask me what God is, I should answer: God is love, and so altogether lovely that creatures all with one accord essay to love his loveliness, whether they do so knowingly or unbeknownst, in joy or sorrow.

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.

God cannot know himself without me.

And so, too, I speak of love: he who is held by it is held by the strongest of bonds, and yet the stress is pleasant. Moreover, he can sweetly bear all that happens to him. When one has found this bond, he looks for no other.