There is an easiness in salvation which is more difficult to us than all our efforts.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Two forces rule the universe: light and gravity.

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

Christ himself came down and took possession of me. . . I had never foreseen the possibility of that, of a real contact, person to person, here below, between a human being and God. . . in this sudden possession of me by Christ, neither my sense nor my imagination had any part: I only felt in the midst of my suffering the presence of a love.

Art has no immediate future, because all art is collective and there is no more collective life.

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.