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.

It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom.

Money destroys human roots wherever it is able to penetrate, by turning desire for gain into the sole motive. It easily manages to outweigh all other motives, because the effort it demands of the mind is so very much less. Nothing is so clear and so simple as a row of figures.

We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.