Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.

It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.

There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

We cannot take a step toward the heavens. God crosses the universe and comes to us.

One of the most exquisite pleasures of human love - to serve the loved one without his knowing it - is only possible, as regards the love of God, through atheism.

We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.