Nothing will be able to hinder us, if we desire and seek God alone, and take pleasure in nothing else.

I have often said that a person who wishes to begin a good life should be like one who draws a circle. Let him or her get the center in the right place and keep it so and the circumference will be good.

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.

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

The greatest power available to man is not to use it.

Whoever has God truly as a companion, is with him in all places, both on the streets, and among people, as well as in church, or in the desert or in a monastic cell...Why is this so? It is so because such a person possesses God alone, keeping their gaze fixed upon God, and thus all things become God for him or her. Such people be a God in all their deeds and in all the places they go, and it is God alone who is the author of all their deeds.

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.