All those who possess in its pure state the love of their neighbour and the acceptance of the order of the world, inclucing affliction-all those, even should they live and die to all appearances atheists, are surely saved.

Of two men who have no experience of God, he who denies him is perhaps nearer to him than the other.

Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection, there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sigh that you will recognize it.

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.

Patriotism is idolatry of the self.

Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.

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