In what concerns divine things, belief is not appropriate. Only certainty will do. Anything less than certainty is unworthy of God.

We cannot take a step toward the heavens. God crosses the universe and comes to us.

When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality, they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. But above this level, far above, separated by an abyss, is the level where the highest things are achieved. These things are essentially anonymous.

Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.

There are only two sorts of greatness: true greatness, which is of a spiritual order, and the old, old lie of world conquest. Conquest is an ersatz greatness.