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

For a heart to be perfectly ready it has to be perfectly empty. In this condition it has attained its maximum capacity.

I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth.

Outward as well as inward morality helps to form the idea of a true Christian freedom. We are right to lay stress on inwardness, but in this world there is no inwardness without an outward expression.

No one is forgotten. It is a lie, any talk of God that does not comfort you.

Philosophers say the Soul is double-faced, her upper face gazes at God all the time and her lower face looks somewhat down, informing the senses; and the upper face, which is the summit of the soul, is in eternity and has nothing to do with time: it knows nothing of time or of body.

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