Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice.

The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics.

We do injury to a child if we bring it up in a narrow Christianity, which prevents it from ever becoming capable of perceiving that there are treasures of purest gold to be found in non-Christian civilizations. Laical education does an even greater injury to children. It covers up those treasures, and those of Christianity as well.

When we hit a nail with a hammer, the whole of the shock received by the large head of the nail passes into the point without any of it being lost, although it is only a point. If the hammer and the head of the nail were infinitely big it would be just the same. The point of the nail would transmit this infinite shock at the point to which it was applied. Extreme affliction, which means physical pain, distress of soul and social degradation, all at the same time, constitutes the nail. The point is applied at the very center of the soul, whose head is all necessity, spreading throughout space and time.

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.