I am what I wanted and I want what I am.

Some people prefer solitude. They say their peace of mind depends on this. Others say they would be better off in church. If you do well, you do well wherever you are. If you fail, you fail wherever you are. Your surroundings don't matter. God is with you everywhere -- in the market place as well as in seclusion or in the church. If you look for nothing but God, nothing or no one can disturb you. God is not distracted by a multitude of things. Nor can we be.

Saint Augustine cries, Lord I cannot love you, but come in and love yourself in me. According to Saint Paul, we must put off our own natural form and put on the form of God, and Saint Augustine tells us to discard our own mode of nature; then the divine nature will flow in and be revealed. Saint Augustine says, Those who seek and find, find not. He who seeks and finds not, he alone finds. Saint Paul says, What I was, was not I, it was God in me.

People who have let go of themselves are so pure that the world cannot harm them.

The man who has submitted his will and purposes entirely to God, carries God with him in all his works and in all circumstances.

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

God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.