Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.

They deceive themselves who believe that union with God consists in ecstasies or raptures, and in the enjoyment of Him. For it consists in nothing except the surrender and subjection of our will - with our thoughts, words and actions - to the will of God.

Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing: God alone suffices.

It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.

If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.

The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.

All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.