For then I knew my soul - every soul - has always held Him.

Therefore, look only for this fishhook, and you will be happily caught. The more you are caught, the more you will be liberated.

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.

Nothing is sharper than suffering, nothing is sweeter than to have suffered.

I have often said that a person who wishes to begin a good life should be like one who draws a circle. Let him or her get the center in the right place and keep it so and the circumference will be good.

Whoever possesses God in their being has Him in a divine manner, and He shines out to them in all things; for them all things taste of God and in all things it is God's image that they see.

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.