Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.

Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.

A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.

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.

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.