“Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.”

“It is love alone that gives worth to all things.”

“ Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in it enters in diffrent places but it all becomes one. ”

“At night a hooded monk passed by where there were no lamps.I could not see his face. I only heard these words he kept repeating:"Teach me, dear Lord, all that you know."I knew instantly a great treasure had entered my soul.”

“Thank God for the things that I do not own.”

“It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.”

“Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man.”