A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

We are all meant to be mothers of God, for God is always needing to be born.

I do not find God outside myself or conceive him except as my own and in me.

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

If I say that God is good, that is not true. God is not good. I am good, and if I say that God is wise, that is not true. I am wiser than he is.

The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God.

I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of God.