There is nothing so much like God in all the universe as silence.

Our best chance of finding God is to look in the place where we left him.

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

Where intuition finds, love follows, and memory and all the soul as well.

Once a man came to me - it was not too long ago - and said that he had given away much landed property and many goods for his own sake so that he might save his soul. Then I thought: 'How little and how insignificant is what you have let go of! It is blindness and foolishness for you to continue looking at all you've let go of. If, however, you've let go of yourself, then you've really let go.'

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.

Nothing is sharper than suffering, nothing is sweeter than to have suffered.