We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.

Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect.

There is in the soul a something in which God dwells, and there is in the soul a something in which the soul dwells in God.

If I say that God is good, that is not true. God is not good. I am good, and if I say that God is wise, that is not true. I am wiser than he is.

I will be silent and will hear what God will say in me...If God wishes to speak to me, let him enter. I will not go out.

What our Lord did was done with the intent, and this alone, that he might be with us and we with him.

The seed of God is in us. If the seed had a good, wise and industrious cultivator, it would thrive all the more and grow up to God whose seed it is, and the fruit would be equal to the nature of God. Now the seed of a pear tree grows into a pear tree, a hazel seed into a hazel tree, and the seed of God into God.