In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.

Every kind of reward constitutes a degradation of energy.

We must love all facts, not for their consequences, but because in each fact God is there present.

Fire destroys that which feeds it.

Education-whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people-consists in creating motives.

It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.

What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.