Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.

There is nothing more harmful to you than improving only your material, animal side of life. There is nothing more beneficial, both for you and for others, than activity directed to the improvement of your soul.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

No one is satisfied with his position, but every one is satisfied with his wit

Lay me down like a stone oh God, and raise me up like a new bread".

Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?

Christian love comes from the understanding that there is a unity of divine origins in oneself and in other people, and not only in people, but in all living things.