Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

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

The human person is the sum total of a 15 billion year chain of unbroken evolution now thinking about itself

The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe—even a positivist one—remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as well as the exterior of things; mind as well as matter. The true physics is that which will, one day, achieve the inclusion of man in his wholeness in a coherent picture of the world.

Above all, trust in the slow work of God.

The world can no more have two summits than a circumference can have two centres.