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.

You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned

A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows.

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

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.

Above all trust in the slow work of God. Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be. Give our Lord the benefit of believing that His hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.