God must act and pour himself into you the moment he finds you ready. Don't imagine that God can be compared to an earthly carpenter, who acts or doesn't act, as he wishes; who can will to do something or leave it undone, according to his pleasure. It is not that way with God: where and when God finds you ready, he must act and overflow into you, just as when the air is clear and pure, the sun must overflow into it and cannot refrain from doing that.

I do not find God outside myself or conceive him except as my own and in me.

Know that when you seek anything of your own, you will never find God, because you do not seek God purely. You are seeking something along with God, and you are acting just as if you were to make a candle out of God in order to look for something with it. Once one finds the things one is looking for, one throws the candle away. This is what you are doing.

I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God.

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

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.

There is no stopping place in this life--nor is there ever one for any person, no matter how far along the way one's gone.