A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

Of two men who have no experience of God, he who denies him is perhaps nearer to him than the other.

The right to kill: supposing the life of X ... were linked with our own so that the two deaths had to be simultaneous, should we still wish him to die? If with our whole body and soul we desire life and if nevertheless without lying, we can reply 'yes'> then we have the right to kill.

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.

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

The world is God's language to us.