People should not worry as much about what they do but rather about what they are. If they and their ways are good, then their deeds are radiant. If you are righteous, then what you do will also be righteous. We should not think that holiness is based on what we do but rather on what we are, for it is not our works which sanctify us but we who sanctify our works.

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

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

God is intelligence occupied with knowing itself.

Love is the root of all joy and sorrow.

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.