The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God’s eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.
Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.
Whoever possesses God in their being has Him in a divine manner, and He shines out to them in all things; for them all things taste of God and in all things it is God’s image that they see.
A day, whether six or seven years ago or whether six thousand years ago, is just as near to the present as yesterday. Why? Because all time is contained in now.
Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.
I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!
If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.
The less theorizing you do about God, the more receptive you are to His inpouring.
Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.
Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect.
If the only prayer you say in your whole life is “Thank you ” that would suffice.
If the only prayer you say in your whole life is “Thank you ” that would suffice.
When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.
The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.
God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.
Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
God is at home, it’s we who have gone out for a walk.