Today it is not nearly enough to be a saint, but we must have the saintliness demanded by the present moment, a new saintliness, itself also without precedent.

Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.

The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.

In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time.

A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.