It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.

It seemed to me certain, and I still think so today, that one can never wrestle enough with God if one does so out of pure regard for the truth. Christ likes us to prefer truth to him because, before being Christ, he is truth. If one turns aside from him to go toward the truth, one will not go far before falling into his arms.

Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.

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

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.