The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.

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

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.

Everybody knows that really intimate conversation is only possible between two or three. As soon as there are six or seven, collective language begins to dominate. That is why it is a complete misinterpretation to apply to the Church the words 'Wheresoever two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.' Christ did not say two hundred, or fifty, or ten. He said two or three.

At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.

Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.