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

One could count on one's fingers the number of scientists throughout the world with a general idea of the history and development of their particular science: there is none who is really competent as regards sciences other than his own. As science forms an indivisible whole, one may say that there are no longer, strictly speaking, scientists, but only drudges doing scientific work.

Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.

Because no other could do it, he himself went to the greatest possible distance, the infinite distance. This infinite distance between God and God, this supreme tearing apart, this incomparable agony, this marvel of love, is the crucifixion. Nothing can be further from God than that which has been made accursed.

Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.

It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.