Creation is an act of love and it is perpetual.

One could count on one's fingers the number of scientists throughout the world with a general idea of the history and development of their particular science: there is none who is really competent as regards sciences other than his own. As science forms an indivisible whole, one may say that there are no longer, strictly speaking, scientists, but only drudges doing scientific work.

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

Someone who does not see a pane of glass is not aware of not seeing it.

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.