One should assiduously pursue perfection without ever claiming to attain it..

We can always make ourselves liked provided we act likable, but we cannot always make ourselves esteemed, no matter what our merits are..

Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the Soul..

All creatures are united to God alone in an immediate union. They depend essentially and directly upon Him. Being all alike equally impotent, they ca….

Imagination is the mad boarder..

God transforms, so to speak, this air into words, into various sounds. He makes you understand these various sounds through the modifications by whic….

I love good and pleasure, I hate evil and pain, I want to be happy and I am not mistaken in believing, that people, angels and even demons have those….

When I touch a human hand, I touch heaven..

Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you shou….

We are rational creatures: Our virtue and perfection is to love reason, or rather to love order..

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to create..

We are made to know and love God..

I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity of his mind, and please do n….

God joins us together by means of the body, in consequence of the laws of the communication of movements. He affects us with the same feelings in con….

As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and i….

You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge of Him by yourself, provided you do not ascribe ….

We see things in this material world, wherein our bodies dwell, only because our mind through its attention lives in another world, only because it c….

You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood..

I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra..

I am not my own light unto myself..

Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of..