All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass.

He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.

It seemed to me certain, and I still think so today, that one can never wrestle enough with God if one does so out of pure regard for the truth. Christ likes us to prefer truth to him because, before being Christ, he is truth. If one turns aside from him to go toward the truth, one will not go far before falling into his arms.

Man alone can enslave man.

Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.

We cannot take a step toward the heavens. God crosses the universe and comes to us.

The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.