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.

The real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the State.

The apprehension of necessity is an imitation of creation.

The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary.

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.

Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.

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.