Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.
Johannes Tauler
Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in... →
In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you and God. Ask yourself. Then... →
If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.
What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God.
In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul... →
Rid yourself of anything that is not directed toward God.
To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.
Let God and all his creation teach you what your sins are.
Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial... →