We had thought that we were human beings making a spiritual journey; it may be truer to say that we are spiritual beings making a human journey.

Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mysterious of the cosmic forces.

The only way forward is in the direction of a common passion, for nothing in the universe can ultimately resist the cumulative ardor of the collective soul.

Let us keep the discoveries and indisputable measurements of physics. But ... A more complete study of the movements of the world will oblige us, little by little, to turn it upside down; in other words, to discover that if things hold and hold together, it is only by reason of complexity, from above.

Individual human beings are so subtly developed through the centuries that it is strictly impermissible to compare any two men who are not contemporaries-that is to say are taken from two quite different times.

You must overcome death by finding God in it.

By virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see.