If we forgive God for his crime against us, which is to have made us finite creatures, He will forgive our crime against him, which is that we are finite creatures.

It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God to think about me.

Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.

The beautiful is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible.

To be innocent is to bear the weight of the entire universe. It is to throw away the counterweight.

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

Academic work is one of those fields which contain a pearl so precious that it is worth while to sell all our possessions, keeping nothing for ourselves, in order to be able to acquire it.