“Faith is the union of God and the soul.”

Never relax, for you will not attain to the possession of true spiritual delights if first you do not learn to deny your every desire.

The road is narrow. He who wishes to travel it more easily must cast off all things and use the cross as his cane. In other words, he must be truly resolved to suffer willingly for the love of God in all things.

Lord, I shall see you no more with the eyes of the flesh.

He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he can hardly catch it again.

The soul that walks in love neither tires others nor grows tired.

Do not let your “eye” be drawn by the false “beacon lamps” -of wealth, or position, or fame, or possessions. Be vigilant over your will and desires, for these are the corrupt forces that dwell within, and keep you from living free.

Oh, night that guided me, Oh, night more lovely than the dawn,Oh, night that joined Beloved with lover, Lover transformed in the Beloved!

At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.

God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever His glance falls He turns all things to beauty.

Now that I no longer desire all, I have it all without desire.

Who teaches the soul if not God?

Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing.

God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.

Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation.

Contemplation is nothing else but a secret, peaceful, and loving infusion of God, which, if admitted, will set the soul on fire with the Spirit of love.

The eternal tide flows hid in Living Bread. That with its Heavenly Life too be fed.

Your faith rests on the future of yourself and others as individuals, mine in the future and fate of our successors.

Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord.

Not to follow the advice of our confessor is pride and a want of faith.

Have faith in the fall. Sometimes life knocks us down so that we can discover what resides at the bottom of it all.

I agree that faith is essential to success in life, but I do not accept your definition of faith, i.e. belief in life after death.

Let every man look before he leaps.

Faith is a dark night for man, but in this very way it gives him light.

A dog is faithful, a woman never.