Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary. It alone forms the subject of an obligation.

The work of art which I do not make, none other will ever make.

Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.

We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.

Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.

If we forgive God for his crime against us, which is to have made us finite creatures, He will forgive our crime against him, which is that we are finite creatures.

The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary.