There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.

War, which perpetuates itself under the form of preparation for war, has once and for all given the State an important role in production.

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

Religion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten.

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

Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.

The children of God should not have any other country here below but the universe itself, with the totality of all the reasoning creatures it ever has contained, contains, or ever will contain. That is the native city to which we owe our love.