To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.

We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

There will never be beings unloved by God, since God is absolute love.

The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes.

To be a child means to owe one's existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite reach the point where we no longer have to give thanks for being the person we are.

The saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor.

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.