Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love a cow - for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort. They do not rightly love God, when they love Him for their own advantage.

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

Your own efforts "did not bring it to pass," only God-but rejoice if God found a use for your efforts in His work.

This much is certain: when a man is happy, happy to the core and root of beatitude, he is no longer conscious of himself or anything else.

The outward work can never be small if the inward one is great, and the outward work can never be great or good if the inward is small or of little worth.

The first measn by which He draws is affinity, that affinity which brings creatures of the same species together, and like to its like. With this cord of affinity He drew men to the Godhead, Whom He always resembles. In order that God may draw more to Himself, and forget His wrath.

Things are all made from nothing; hence their true source is nothing.