The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

To be innocent is to bear the weight of the entire universe. It is to throw away the counterweight.

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.

In order to obey God, one must receive his commands. How did it happen that I received them in adolescence, while I was professing atheism? To believe that the desire for good is always fulfilled - that is faith, and whoever has it is not an atheist.

Armies under the control of ... a sovereign State cannot bring freedom to anyone.

In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time.