One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.

One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.

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

Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.

Every atheist is an idolater- unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are idolaters.

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

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