We must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge.

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

A pure heart is one that is unencumbered, unworried, uncommitted, and which does not want its own way about anything but which, rather, is submerged in the loving will of God.

I do not find God outside myself or conceive him except as my own and in me.

Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love a cow - for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort. They do not rightly love God, when they love Him for their own advantage.

The soul loves the body. And consider too how it is that the body is more in the soul than the soul is in the body.

Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there.

Stillness is where creativity and solutions are found.

Our best chance of finding God is to look in the place where we left him.

I will be silent and will hear what God will say in me...If God wishes to speak to me, let him enter. I will not go out.

It is in the darkness that one finds the light.

God is at his greatest when I am at my least.

Philosophers say the Soul is double-faced, her upper face gazes at God all the time and her lower face looks somewhat down, informing the senses; and the upper face, which is the summit of the soul, is in eternity and has nothing to do with time: it knows nothing of time or of body.

Remember this: all suffering comes to an end. And whatever you suffer authentically, God has suffered from it first.

Do not think that saintliness comes from occupation; it depends rather on what one is. The kind of work we do does not make us holy but we may make it holy. However sacred...

Love is the root of all joy and sorrow.

To walk on not wondering am I right or doing something wrong.

There are plenty to follow our Lord half-way, but not the other half. They will give up possessions, friends, and honors, but it touches them too closely to disown themselves.

God is bound to act, to pour himself out (into thee) as soon as ever he shall find thee ready.

Treat all things as if they were loaned to you without any ownership - whether body or soul, sense or strength, external goods or honors, house or hall...everything.

I need to be silent for awhile, worlds are forming in my heart.

Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go.

There is nothing so much like God in all the universe as silence.