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.

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.

This is my only and permanent complaint, that vulgar people, empty of the Spirit of God, want to judge solely by their human thinking what they listen to or read in the Bible, which has been pronounced and written by the Holy Spirit and in the Holy Spirit.

The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.

I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth.

People who have let go of themselves are so pure that the world cannot harm them.

That which a man acquires by contemplation he should spend in love.