We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.

There is no greater joy for me than looking at the sky on a clear night with an attention so concentrated that all my other thoughts disappear; then one can think that the stars enter into one's soul.

If someone does me injury I must desire that this injury shall not degrade me. I must desire this out of love for him who inflicts it, in order that he may not really have done evil.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.

The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.

It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God to think about me.