Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers' enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this apparatus and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

Necessity is God's veil.

We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them but by waiting for them.

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.

Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.