Of two men who have no experience of God, he who denies him is perhaps nearer to him than the other.

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.

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.

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.

One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.

The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.

One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.