If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.

Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly all nature seeks God and works toward [God].

He is conscious only of God...To be conscious of knowing God is to know about God and self.

To get at the core of God at his greatest, one must first get to the core of himself at his least, for no one can know God who has not first known himself. This core is a simple stillness, which is unmoved itself but by whose immobility all things are moved and all receive life.

You will have peace to the extent that you have God, and the further you are away from God the less you will be at peace... Thus you may measure your progress with God by measuring your peace or the lack of it.

A man may go into the field and say his prayer and be aware of God, or he may be in Church and be aware of God; but if he is more aware of Him because he is in a quiet place, that is his own deficiency and not due to God, Who is alike present in all things and places, and is willing to give Himself everywhere so far as lies in Him... He knows God rightly who knows Him everywhere.

For a heart to be perfectly ready it has to be perfectly empty. In this condition it has attained its maximum capacity.