[W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge.

God is nearer to me than I am to myself; He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it.

Grace pours all beauty into the soul ... The soul means the world.

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

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

If I had a friend and loved him because of the benefits which this brought me and because of getting my own way, then it would not be my friend that I loved but myself. I should love my friend on account of his own goodness and virtues and account of all that he is in himself. Only if I love my friend in this way do I love him properly.

God holds each of us by a string. When we sin, we cut the string. But God ties it up again, making a knot. Each time our wrongdoing cuts the string, God ties another knot drawing us up closer to Him.