one is never got out of the cave, one comes out of it.

What hope is there for innocence if it is not recognized?

God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.

It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God to think about me.

science has now been for a long time - and to an ever-increasing extent - a collective enterprise. Actually, new results are always, in fact, the work of specific individuals; but, save perhaps for rare exceptions, the value of any result depends on such a complex set of interrelations with past discoveries and possible future researches that even the mind of the inventor cannot embrace the whole.

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

One might lay down as a postulate: All conceptions of God which are incompatible with a movement of pure charity are false. All other conceptions of him, in varying degree, are true.