Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.
Every creature is a word of God.
To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.
The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.
A day, whether six or seven years ago or whether six thousand years ago, is just as near to the present as yesterday. Why? Because all time is contained in now.
I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!
When God laughs at the soul and the soul laughs back at God, the persons of the Trinity are begotten. When the Father laughs at the Son and the Son laughs back at the Father, that laughter gives pleas...
When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.
The less theorizing you do about God, the more receptive you are to His inpouring.
God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.
You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear...
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow and to love Him as they love their cow-for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for...
Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.
On undetached people who are full of self-will.4 People say: ‘O Lord, I wish that I stood as well with God and that I had as much devotion and peace with God as other people, and that I could be like...
If the only prayer you say in your whole life is "Thank you " that would suffice.