Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell. Death separates the soul from the body, but love separates all things from the soul.

It is a fair trade and an equal exchange: to the extent that you depart from things, thus far, no more and no less, God enters into you with all that is his, as far as you have stripped yourself of yourself in all things. It is here that you should begin, whatever the cost, for it is here that you will find true peace, and nowhere else.

There is in the soul a something in which God dwells, and there is in the soul a something in which the soul dwells in God.

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

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Once a man came to me - it was not too long ago - and said that he had given away much landed property and many goods for his own sake so that he might save his soul. Then I thought: 'How little and how insignificant is what you have let go of! It is blindness and foolishness for you to continue looking at all you've let go of. If, however, you've let go of yourself, then you've really let go.'