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.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

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. And therefore if you want to discover nature's nakedness you must destroy its symbols, and the farther you get in the nearer you come to its essence. When you come to the One that gathers all things up into itself, there you must stay.

My Lord told me a joke. And seeing Him laugh has done more for me than any scripture I will ever read.

I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!

I will be silent and will hear what God will say in me...If God wishes to speak to me, let him enter. I will not go out.

And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.