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

In what concerns divine things, belief is not appropriate. Only certainty will do. Anything less than certainty is unworthy of God.

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.

The need of truth is more sacred than any other need.

Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?