Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules.

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

Since once again, O Lord, in the steppes of Asia, I have no bread, no wine, no altar, I will raise myself above those symbols to the pure majesty of reality, and I will offer to you, I, your priest, upon the altar of the entire earth, the labor and the suffering of the world.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.