[We are not] to take one step, even in the direction of what is good, beyond that to which we are irresistibly impelled by God, and this applies to action, word, and thought.

All the goods of this world...are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying the desire that perpetually burns within us for an infinite and perfect good.

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

It may be that vice, depravity, and crime are nearly always, or even perhaps always, in their essence, attempts to eat beauty, to eat what we should only look at.

Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.

...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.

Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.