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

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.

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

The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.

It seemed to me certain, and I still think so today, that one can never wrestle enough with God if one does so out of pure regard for the truth. Christ likes us to prefer truth to him because, before being Christ, he is truth. If one turns aside from him to go toward the truth, one will not go far before falling into his arms.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.