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 cannot know himself without me.
This is not only a commandment but also a promise or reward.
If the seal is pressed completely through the wax so that no wax remains without being impressed by the seal, then it becomes indistinguishably one with the seal. Similarly the soul becomes completely united with God.
Let God operate in thee; Hand the work over to Him and do not disquiet thyself as to whether or no He is working with nature or above nature, for His are both nature and grace.
Our bodily food is changed into us, but our spiritual food changes us into it.
For a heart to be perfectly ready it has to be perfectly empty. In this condition it has attained its maximum capacity.
Though it may be called a nescience, and unknowing, yet there is in it more than all knowing and understanding without it; for this unknowing lures and attracts you from all understood things, and from yourself as well.
The human spirit must transcend number and break through multiplicity, and God will break through him; and just as He.
Through the higher love the whole life of man is to be elevated from temporal selfishness to the spring of all love, to God: man will again be master over nature by abiding in God and lifting her up to God.
If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.
No man was ever lost except for one reason: having once left his ground he has let himself become too permanently settled abroad.
I maintain that all sorrow comes from love of those things of which loss deprives me.
Where intuition finds, love follows, and memory and all the soul as well.
A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.
For then I knew my soul – every soul – has always held Him.
Words derive their power from the original word.
God is nearer to me than I am to myself; He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it.
Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.
Everything is meant to be lost, that the soul may stand in unhampered nothingness.