Creation is an act of love and it is perpetual.

Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when he is there (or when we think about him). Or rather, to read in him that he is certainly something different, perhaps something completely different from what we read in him. Every being cries out silently to be read differently.

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

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

Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice.

We do injury to a child if we bring it up in a narrow Christianity, which prevents it from ever becoming capable of perceiving that there are treasures of purest gold to be found in non-Christian civilizations. Laical education does an even greater injury to children. It covers up those treasures, and those of Christianity as well.

To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.