Not to follow the advice of our confessor is pride and a want of faith.

In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessions and human success, but rather on how much we have loved.

Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.

In the inner stillness where meditation leads, the Spirit secretly anoints the soul and heals our deepest wounds.

To love is to be transformed into what we love. To love God is therefore to be transformed into God.

Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing.

Silence is God's first language.

Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.

Whoever does not seek the cross of Christ doesn't seek the glory of Christ.

In sorrow and suffering, go straight to God with confidence, and you will be strengthened, enlightened and instructed.

God leads every soul by a separate path.

This country awakens so many memories, though each seems like some restless sparrow I know will flee any moment into the breeze.

She wouldn't have died if I hadn't taught her how to fall.

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children - except in self-defense.

We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that.

Everything is a state of mind. Astral travel is the ability to wander through different states of mind and develop psychic perceptions.

If you're overwhelmed, lost, or like you life is out of control, do whatever you can that matters to someone else or ever did to you... it might not help, but it certainly won't hurt.

Gods are nothing without their worshipers; they act on the affairs and the passions of men.

The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the café.

The successful man or woman always looks for the advantage or benefit in every situation and lo and behold, they always find it.

For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.