“Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.”

“Whoever possesses God in their being has Him in a divine manner, and He shines out to them in all things; for them all things taste of God and in all things it is God's image that they see.”

“If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.”

“As long as I am this or that, I am not all things.”

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

“If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," it will be enough.”

“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.”