Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion.

The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God.

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was thank you that would suffice.

I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!

God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

If we keep our eyes fixed on God alone, then truly he must work in us and nothing, neither the crowd nor any place can hinder him in this.

Where and when God finds you ready, he must act and overflow into you, just as when the air is clear and pure, the sun must overflow into it and cannot refrain from doing that.

The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God.

Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.

Become aware of what is in you. Announce it, pronounce it, produce it, and give birth to it.

Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect.

The less theorizing you do about God, the more receptive you are to His inpouring.

He who can make distinction in God without number or quantity, knows that the three persons of the Trinity are one God.

Our bodily food is changed into us, but our spiritual food changes us into it.

The seed of God is in us. If the seed had a good, wise and industrious cultivator, it would thrive all the more and grow up to God whose seed it is, and the fruit would be equal to the nature of God. Now the seed of a pear tree grows into a pear tree, a hazel seed into a hazel tree, and the seed of God into God.

People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are.

The perfection of virtue is born in struggle.

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.

God wants nothing of you but the gift of a peaceful heart.

What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.