The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.

God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.

We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.

It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.

Love: To feel with one's whole self the existence of another being.