Just as the power of the sun is the only force in the natural universe that causes a plant to grow against gravity, so the grace of God is the only force in the spiritual universe that causes a person to grow against the gravity of their own ego.

It may be that vice, depravity, and crime are nearly always, or even perhaps always, in their essence, attempts to eat beauty, to eat what we should only look at.

All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time.

One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

Every atheist is an idolater- unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are idolaters.

We must love all facts, not for their consequences, but because in each fact God is there present.