The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.

In order to obey God, one must receive his commands. How did it happen that I received them in adolescence, while I was professing atheism? To believe that the desire for good is always fulfilled - that is faith, and whoever has it is not an atheist.

There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.

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.

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

Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.

There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.