Love is not consolation, it is light.

All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass.

If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.

There is an easiness in salvation which is more difficult to us than all our efforts.

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

Man alone can enslave man.