Everything that rises must converge.

We may, perhaps, imagine that the creation was finished long ago. But that would be quite wrong. It continues still more magnificently, and at the highest levels of the world.

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.

At the heart of our universe, each soul exists for God, in our Lord.

And now, as a germination of planetary dimensions, comes the thinking layer which over its full extent develops and intertwines its fibres, not to confuse and neutralise them but to reinforce them in the living unity of a single tissue.

Mankind is still embryonic ... [man is] the bud from which something more complicated and more centered than man himself should emerge.

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.