The less you feel and the more firmly you believe, the more praiseworthy is your faith and the more it will be esteemed and appreciated; for real faith is much more than a mere opinion of man. In it we have true knowledge: in truth, we lack nothing save true faith.

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.

God is at his greatest when I am at my least.

To the quiet mind all things are possible.

The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.

One must learn an inner solitude, wherever or with whomsoever he may be.

There is nothing so much like God in all the universe as silence.