We must love all facts, not for their consequences, but because in each fact God is there present.

The right to kill: supposing the life of X ... were linked with our own so that the two deaths had to be simultaneous, should we still wish him to die? If with our whole body and soul we desire life and if nevertheless without lying, we can reply 'yes'> then we have the right to kill.

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.

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

Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it.

Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.

It may be that vice, depravity, and crime are nearly always, or even perhaps always, in their essence, attempts to eat beauty, to eat what we should only look at.