To become attached to the experience of peace is to threaten the true and essential and vital union of our soul with God above sense and experience in the darkness of a pure and perfect love.

What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?

And that is why the man who wants to see clearly, before he will believe, never starts on the journey.

To be unknown to God is altogether too much privacy.

If you write for God you will reach many men and bring them joy. If you write for men--you may make some money and you may give someone a little joy and you may make a noise in the world, for a little while. If you write for yourself, you can read what you yourself have written and after ten minutes you will be so disgusted that you will wish that you were dead.

Life reveals itself to us only in so far as well live it.

But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.