Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.

Christian obedience, by its very nature, has a heroic character.

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.

Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith.

The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.

Every experience of beauty points to [eternity].

A truth that is merely handed on, without being thought anew from its very foundations, has lost its vital power.