Wisdom consists in doing the next think you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

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.

Outward as well as inward morality helps to form the idea of a true Christian freedom. We are right to lay stress on inwardness, but in this world there is no inwardness without an outward expression.

The soul must long for God in order to be set aflame by God's love; but if the soul cannot yet feel the longing, then it must long for the longing. To long for the longing is also from God.

I will be silent and will hear what God will say in me...If God wishes to speak to me, let him enter. I will not go out.

There exists only the present instant ... There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now.