Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.

The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship.

The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary.

There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.

the instruments of power - arms, gold, machines, magical or technical secrets - always exist independently of him who disposes of them, and can be taken up by others. Consequently all power is unstable.