Do not be troubled if you do not immediately receive from God what you ask Him; for He desires to do something even greater for you, while you cling to Him in prayer.

God cannot be grasped by the mind. If he could be grasped, he would not be God.

The further the soul advances, the greater are the adversaries against which it must contend.

Prayer is the laying aside of thoughts.

Blessed is the one who has arrived at infinite ignorance.

If you patiently accept what comes, you will always pray with joy.

A man who worships in Spirit and Truth no longer honors the Creator because of His works, but praises Him because of Himself.

Happy is the spirit that attains to the perfect formlessness at the time of prayer.

Prayer is the fruit of joy and thankfulness.

If your spirit still looks around at the time of prayer, then it does not yet pray as a monk. You are no better than a man of affairs engaged in a kind of landscape gardening.

A monk is a man who considers himself one with all men because he seems constantly to see himself in every man.

I don't fit into any stereotypes. And I like myself that way.

If a road ends, that creates a great opportunity to develop new abilities to continue! Welcome every challenge in your life!

Suddenly he knew all the things he should have said.

I've seen women who don't have great relationships with their dads, and it all comes down to this: You have to tell girls you love them every day.

I want an explosion the size of Cleveland.

Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e'en now, e'en now, we die.

What I'm urging people to do is trust in the sovereignty of God.

Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden.

Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.

Never judge a work of art by its defects.