You never depart from us, but yet, only with difficulties do we return to You.

When I come to be united to thee with all my being, then there will be no more pain and toil for me, and my life shall be a real life, being wholly filled by thee.

In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept me from you; yet if they had not been in you, they would have not been at all.

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

He pleaseth God whom God pleaseth.

As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes when the soul leaves it, so the soul dies when God departs from it.

When I seek you, my God, I seek a blessed life. I shall seek you, so that my soul may live.

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

To touch God a little with our mind is a great blessing, to grasp him is impossible.