The perpetual enemy of faith in the true God is not atheism (the claim that there is no God), but rather Gnosticism (the claim that God is known).

Freedom and destiny are solemnly promised to one another and linked together in meaning.

Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity.

The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.

Solitude is the place of purification.

Here is the infallible test. Imagine yourself in a situation where you are alone, wholly alone on earth, and you are offered one of the two, books or men. I often hear men prizing their solitude but that is only because there are still men somewhere on earth even though in the far distance. I knew nothing of books when I came forth from the womb of my mother, and I shall die without books, with another human hand in my own. I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human being looking at me.