The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?

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.

Love is not consolation, it is light.

I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.

If there were no affliction in this world we might think we were in paradise.

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

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.