Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying..

What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God..

Man must do his part and detach himself from created things..

In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesse….

God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently t….

Everything depends on this: a fathomless sinking into a fathomless nothingness..

In the school of the spirit, man learns wisdom through humility..

God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, H….

Judge yourself; if you sincerely and humbly do that, you will not be judged by God..

To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself..

Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage i….

If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn….

In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing..

If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine..

God does not lead all His servants by one road, nor in one way, nor at one time; for God is in all things; and that man is not serving God aright, wh….

In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you and God. Ask yourself. Then l….

Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other ….

You have within you many strong and cruel enemies to overcome. You must know that there are still a thousand ties which you must break. No one can te….

A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises..

Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial….

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from hi….