Sin is nothing else but the failure to recognize human wretchedness.

If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.

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

The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.

Creation is an act of love and it is perpetual.

Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.

Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.