The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary.

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

Attentiveness is the heart of prayer.

The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration of money, nationality, race, or color, or to the moral or other value attributed to the human being in question, or to any consideration whatsoever.

Rome is the Great Beast of atheism and materialism, adoring nothing but itself. Israel is the Great Beast of religion. Neither one nor the other is likable. The Great Beast is always repulsive

The difference between more or less intelligent men is like the difference between criminals condemned to life imprisonment in smaller or larger cells. The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like a condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.