The beautiful is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible.
We cannot take a step toward the heavens. God crosses the universe and comes to us.
Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.
We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.
the instruments of power - arms, gold, machines, magical or technical secrets - always exist independently of him who disposes of them, and can be taken up by others. Consequently all power is unstable.