“The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.”

“The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.”

“All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.”

“One must learn an inner solitude, wherever one may be.”

“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. ”

“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.”

“Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.”