It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration of money, nationality, race, or color, or to the moral or other value attributed to the human being in question, or to any consideration whatsoever.

Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.

The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.

One of the most exquisite pleasures of human love - to serve the loved one without his knowing it - is only possible, as regards the love of God, through atheism.