The beautiful is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible.

It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.

Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.

Workers need poetry more than bread. They need that their life should be a poem. They need some light from eternity. Religion alone can be the source of such poetry.

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.

He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.

[We are not] to take one step, even in the direction of what is good, beyond that to which we are irresistibly impelled by God, and this applies to action, word, and thought.