Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.

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.

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

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

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

Someone who does not see a pane of glass is not aware of not seeing it.

We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.