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 eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.

By humility, out of an enemy He has made a friend, which is more than to have created a new earth.

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.

No man was ever lost except for one reason: having once left his ground he has let himself become too permanently settled abroad.

The more we have the less we own.

A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.