Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.
Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.
Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion.
One must not always think so much about what one should do, but rather what one should be. Our works do not ennoble us; but we must ennoble our works.
I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth.
Wisdom consists in doing the next think you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.
When the Soul wants to experience something she throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it.
As long as I am this or that, I am not all things.
I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of God.
God holds each of us by a string. When we sin, we cut the string. But God ties it up again, making a knot. Each time our wrongdoing cuts the string, God ties another knot drawing us up closer to Him.
There is in the soul a something in which God dwells, and there is in the soul a something in which the soul dwells in God.
Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.
Let God work in you, give the work to God, and have peace. Don’t worry if He works through your nature or above your nature, because both are His, nature and grace.
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.
The outward work can never be small if the inward one is great, and the outward work can never be great or good if the inward is small or of little worth.
Be ready at all times for the gifts of God, and always for new ones.
And so, too, I speak of love: he who is held by it is held by the strongest of bonds, and yet the stress is pleasant. Moreover, he can sweetly bear all that happens to him. When one has found this bond, he looks for no other.
The love by which we love God is the very same love with which God has first loved us.
If you seek the kernel, then you must break the shell. An likewise, if you would know the reality of Nature, you must destroy the appearance, and the farther you go beyond the appearance, the nearer you will be to the essence.
No-one knows what the soul is. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion.