If we keep our eyes fixed on God alone, then truly he must work in us and nothing, neither the crowd nor any place can hinder him in this.

By humility, out of an enemy He has made a friend, which is more than to have created a new earth.

Above thought is the intellect, which still seeks: it goes about looking, spies out here and there, picks up and drops. But above the intellect that seeks is another intellect which does not seek but stays in its pure, simple being, which is embraced in that light.

The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.

What good is it to me that Mary gave birth to the son of God fourteen hundred years ago, and I do not also give birth to the Son of God in my time and in my culture? We are all meant to be mothers of God. God is always needing to be born.

No man was ever lost except for one reason: having once left his ground he has let himself become too permanently settled abroad.

We are all meant to be mothers of God, for God is always needing to be born.