Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.

The Our Father contains all possible petitions; we cannot conceive of any prayer not already contained in it. It is to prayer what Christ is to humanity.

prayer consists of attention. It is the orientation of all the attention of which the soul is capable towards God. The quality of the attention counts for much in the quality of the prayer. Warmth of heart cannot make up for it.

God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.

Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms.

Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods, liberty and obedience; for it is no longer within the power of such masses to accord their inner consent to the authority to which they are subjected. Those who encourage a state of things in which the hope of gain is the principle motive take away from men their obedience, for consent which is its essence is not something which can be sold.

Armies under the control of ... a sovereign State cannot bring freedom to anyone.