One must not always think so much about what one should do, but rather what one should be. Our works do not ennoble us; but we must ennoble our works.

God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.

Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion.

To be full of things is to be empty of God; to be empty of things is to be full of God.

This then is salvation - when we marvel at the beauty of created things and praise their beautiful Creator.

Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go.

A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.