The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible.

It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.

Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being, beyond all data, beyond all inventories and all calculations, a mysterious principle which is in connivance with me

Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.

You know you have loved someone when you have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die.

... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.