Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.

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

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue.

To be innocent is to bear the weight of the entire universe. It is to throw away the counterweight.

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.