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 same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War II] who stood motionless, from one to eight in the morning, for the sake of having an egg, would have found it very difficult to do in order to save a human life.

In reality nothing is so beautiful as the good, nothing is so monotonous and boring as evil.

It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom.

You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.

Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.

Because no other could do it, he himself went to the greatest possible distance, the infinite distance. This infinite distance between God and God, this supreme tearing apart, this incomparable agony, this marvel of love, is the crucifixion. Nothing can be further from God than that which has been made accursed.