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

In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.

Everybody knows that really intimate conversation is only possible between two or three. As soon as there are six or seven, collective language begins to dominate. That is why it is a complete misinterpretation to apply to the Church the words 'Wheresoever two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.' Christ did not say two hundred, or fifty, or ten. He said two or three.

The right to kill: supposing the life of X ... were linked with our own so that the two deaths had to be simultaneous, should we still wish him to die? If with our whole body and soul we desire life and if nevertheless without lying, we can reply 'yes'> then we have the right to kill.

Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms.

It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.

It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.