Our bodily food is changed into us, but our spiritual food changes us into it.

God is nearer to me than I am to myself; He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it.

I maintain that all sorrow comes from love of those things of which loss deprives me.

Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly all nature seeks God and works toward [God].

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

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.

Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.