Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

Religion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten.

Whoever is uprooted himself uproots others. Whoever is rooted himself doesn't uproot others.

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.

The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship.