Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.

Art has no immediate future, because all art is collective and there is no more collective life.

When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.

prayer consists of attention. It is the orientation of all the attention of which the soul is capable towards God. The quality of the attention counts for much in the quality of the prayer. Warmth of heart cannot make up for it.

We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them but by waiting for them.

Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The suffering should be inflicted with the aim of bringing the soul to recognize freely some day that its infliction was just.

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