If the seal is pressed completely through the wax so that no wax remains without being impressed by the seal, then it becomes indistinguishably one with the seal. Similarly the soul becomes completely united with God.

God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away. God lies in wait for us with nothing so much as love.

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.

Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly all nature seeks God and works toward [God].

Though one should live through all the time from Adam and all the time to come before the judgment day doing good works, yet he who, energising in his highest, purest part, crosses from time to eternity, verily in the sight of God this man conceives and does far more than anyone who lives throughout all past and future time, because this now includes the whole of time. One master says that in crossing over time into the now each power of the soul will surpass itself. . . .

Let God operate in thee; Hand the work over to Him and do not disquiet thyself as to whether or no He is working with nature or above nature, for His are both nature and grace.

He who can make distinction in God without number or quantity, knows that the three persons of the Trinity are one God.