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.

The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.

The entire universe is nothing but a great metaphor.

The beauty of the world is Christ's tender smile for us coming through matter.

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.

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think ofhimself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches him this.

It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.