Attentiveness is the heart of prayer.

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

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

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.

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.

The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.