If anyone went on for a thousand years asking of life: 'Why are you living?' life, if it could answer, would only say, 'I live so that I may live.' That is because life lives out of its own ground and springs from its own source, and so it lives without asking why it is itself living.

All that God asks you most pressingly is to go out of yourself … and let God be God in you

The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.

I maintain that all sorrow comes from love of those things of which loss deprives me.

The human spirit must transcend number and break through multiplicity, and God will break through him; and just as He

Only he to whom God is present in everything and who employs his reason in the highest degree and has enjoyment in it knows anything of true peace and has a real kingdom of heaven.

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.