As God's beloved, I live in the bliss knowing that my soul is never separated from Him, for I learn to know Her in all that I see. God dissolved my mind-my separation. I cannot describe now my intimacy with Him.

Let him never cease from prayer who has once begun it, be his life ever so wicked; for prayer is the way to amend it, and without prayer such amendment will be much more difficult.

From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.

His Majesty [the Lord] . . . rewards great services with trials, and there can be no better reward, for out of trials springs love for God.

In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.

We are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense.

When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.