Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.

Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.

The authentic and pure values, truth, beauty, and goodness, in the activity of a human being are the result of one and the same act, a certain application of the full attention to the object. Teaching should have no aim but to prepare, by training the attention, for the possibility of such an act. All the other advantages of instruction are without interest.

It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.

Creation is an act of love and it is perpetual.

The speed with which bureaucracy has invaded almost every branch of human activity is something astounding once one thinks about it.

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.