Men owe us what we imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them but by waiting for them.

One might lay down as a postulate: All conceptions of God which are incompatible with a movement of pure charity are false. All other conceptions of him, in varying degree, are true.

One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.

The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.