Quotes from Miguel de Molinos

It is a maxim that will endure: To truly know the living God, this begets humility.

With the wind of tribulation God separates in the floor of the soul, the chaff from the corn.

Thou art never at any time nearer to God than when under tribulation; which He permits for the purification and beautifying of thy soul.

Think not that when thou art dry and darksom in the presence of God, with faith and silence, that thou do'st nothing, that thou losest time, and that thou are idle, because not to wait on God, according to the saying of St. Bernard (Tom.5.in Fract. de vit. solit.c.8.p. 90.), is the greatest idleness