To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).

God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.

The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics.

One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.

The contradictions the mind comes up against, these are the only realities, the criterion of the real. There is no contradiction in what is imaginary. Contradiction is the test of necessity.

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?

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.