Lord, you are my lover, my longing, my flowing stream, my sun, and I am your reflection.

The day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw and knew I saw all things in God and God in all things.

Stupidity is sufficient unto itself. Wisdom can never learn enough.

I was created in love. For that reason nothing can express my beauty nor liberate me except love alone.

Those who would know much, and love little, will ever remain at but the beginning of a godly life.

From suffering I have learned this: that whoever is sore wounded by love will never be made whole unless she embraces the very same love which wounded her.

Fish cannot drown in water. Birds cannot sink in air. This has God given to all creatures, to foster and seek their own nature. How then can I withstand mine?

I cannot dance, O Lord, unless You lead me.

God, give me by Your grace what You give to dogs by nature.

One day I saw with the eyes of my eternity in bliss and without effort, a stone. It tasted sweet, like heavenly herbs.

I have seen a place-its name is Eternal Hatred It is built in the deepest abyss of the stones of mortal sin. Pride was the first stone-this was seen in Lucifer.

My love, we can close our eyes but we cannot stop the sunrise.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity and I would not own one except I miss appointments without it.

The world is God's workshop for making men in.

Decades go faster toward the end of a century.

The best of all possible cages.' Ben stepped back to regard the job with a sad smile. 'What more can one ask?

You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.

I think the jokes would have been a bit broader and a bit more obvious in terms of the day-to-day of country life.

Not only does God play dice with the world He does not let us see what He has rolled.