The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship.

The world is God's language to us.

Because no other could do it, he himself went to the greatest possible distance, the infinite distance. This infinite distance between God and God, this supreme tearing apart, this incomparable agony, this marvel of love, is the crucifixion. Nothing can be further from God than that which has been made accursed.

Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection, there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sigh that you will recognize it.

The beautiful is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible.

Sin is nothing else but the failure to recognize human wretchedness.

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.