It may be that vice, depravity, and crime are nearly always, or even perhaps always, in their essence, attempts to eat beauty, to eat what we should only look at.

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

It may be that vice, depravity, and crime are nearly always, or even perhaps always, in their essence, attempts to eat beauty, to eat what we should only look at.

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.

Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.

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

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.