Saint Augustine cries, Lord I cannot love you, but come in and love yourself in me. According to Saint Paul, we must put off our own natural form and put on the form of God, and Saint Augustine tells us to discard our own mode of nature; then the divine nature will flow in and be revealed. Saint Augustine says, Those who seek and find, find not. He who seeks and finds not, he alone finds. Saint Paul says, What I was, was not I, it was God in me.

What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.

What good is it that Christ was born [2,000] years ago if he is not born now in your heart?

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

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

Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect.

I will be silent and will hear what God will say in me...If God wishes to speak to me, let him enter. I will not go out.