The more we have the less we own.

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

The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.

The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.

This is my only and permanent complaint, that vulgar people, empty of the Spirit of God, want to judge solely by their human thinking what they listen to or read in the Bible, which has been pronounced and written by the Holy Spirit and in the Holy Spirit.

The most powerful prayer, one well-nigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind. The quieter it is the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is. To the quiet mind all things are possible. What is a quiet mind? A quiet mind is one which nothing weighs on, nothing worries, which, free from ties and from all self-seeking, is wholly merged into the will of God and dead to its own.

Things are all made from nothing; hence their true source is nothing.