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

The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is a sickness of the soul. The boredom produced by a complete absence of risk is also a sickness of the soul.

Only an indirect method is effective. We do nothing if we have not first drawn back.

We cannot take a single step toward heaven. It is not in our power to travel in a vertical direction. If however we look heavenward for a long time, God comes and takes us up.

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.

Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.