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

Whoever is uprooted himself uproots others. Whoever is rooted himself doesn't uproot others.

We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.

Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice.

Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

If it were conceivable that in obeying God one should bring about one's own damnation whilst in disobeying him one could be saved, I should still choose the way of obedience.

In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.