The seed of God is in us: Pear seeds grow into pear trees; Hazel seeds into hazel trees; And God seeds into God.
You need seek God neither below or above. He is no farther away than the door of the heart.
If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God.
The soul will bring forth Person if God laughs into her and she laughs back to him. To speak in parable, the Father laughs into the Son and the Son laughs back to the Father; and this laughter breeds liking and liking breeds joy, and joy begets love, and love begets Person, and Person begets the Holy Ghost.
The moral task of man is a process of spiritualization. All creatures are go-betweens, and we are placed in time that by diligence in spiritual business we may grow liker and nearer to God. The aim of man is beyond the temporal - in the serene region of the everlasting Present.
Now rejoice, all ye powers of my soul, that you are so united with God that no one may separate you from Him. I cannot fully praise nor love Him therefore must I die, and cast myself into the divine void, till I rise from non-existence to existence.
The now wherein God made the world is as near this time as the now I am speaking in this moment, and the last day is as near this now as was yesterday.
The very best and noblest attainment in this life is to be silent and let God work and speak within. Therefore it is said: 'In the midst of silence the secret word was spoken to me.'
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
If you love yourself, you love everybody else as you do yourself. As long as you love another person less than you love yourself, you will not really succeed in loving yourself but if you love all alike, including yourself, you will love them as one person and that person is both God and man.
He is conscious only of God...To be conscious of knowing God is to know about God and self.
You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
He who can make distinction in God without number or quantity, knows that the three persons of the Trinity are one God.
God does not work in all hearts alike, but according to the preparation and sensitivity He finds in each.
Every creature is a word of God.
I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of God.
God is intelligence occupied with knowing itself.
No one is forgotten. It is a lie, any talk of God that does not comfort you.
When someone goes out of himself to find God or fetch God, he is wrong.
God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.
No-one knows what the soul is. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion.
Apprehend God in all things, for God is in all things. Every single creature is full of God and is a book about God. Every creature is a word of God.
Be ready at all times for the gifts of God, and always for new ones.
Nothing will be able to hinder us, if we desire and seek God alone, and take pleasure in nothing else.
In my breaking through...I transcend all creatures and am neither God nor creature...for in this breaking through I find that God and I are both the same.