The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the shell.

Love God, and do as you like, say the Free Spirits. Yes; but as long as you like anything contrary to God's will, you do not love Him.

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

If I say that God is good, that is not true. God is not good. I am good, and if I say that God is wise, that is not true. I am wiser than he is.

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.

What good is it that Christ was born [2,000] years ago if he is not born now in your heart?

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.