“God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.”

“Prayer is the key that opens heaven; the favors we ask descend upon us the very instant our prayers ascend to God.”

“To whatever the soul of man turns, unless toward God, it cleaves to sorrow, even though the things outside God and outside itself to which it turns may be things of beauty.”

“Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.”

“Embrace the love of God, and by love embrace God”

“He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.”

“There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God.”