Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind.

I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

Dream that the more you struggle, the more you prove the love that you bear your God, and the more you will rejoice one day with your Beloved, in a happiness and rapture that can never end.

Granting that 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; for they, as it were, see that He is looking upon them, while others may go for days on end without even once recollecting that God sees them.

Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God. God alone is sufficient.

It is only mercenaries who expect to be paid by the day.

God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.