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.

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.

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Sin is nothing else but the failure to recognize human wretchedness.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.

The difference between more or less intelligent men is like the difference between criminals condemned to life imprisonment in smaller or larger cells. The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like a condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them but by waiting for them.