Only individuals have a sense of responsibility.

With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being.

Christianity has a hunter's instinct for finding out all those who by one means or another may be driven to despair -although only a part of mankind is capable of such despair. Christianity lies in wait for such as those and pursues them

Such a man as instinctively feeds on pure ambrosia and leaves alone the indigestible in things.

With one more talent one frequently stands with greater instability than with one less, as a table stands better on three legs than on four.

In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings.

Sins are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis; they are the only reliable weapons of power; the priest lives upon sins; it is necessary to him that there be sinning.