The world is God's language to us.

If someone does me injury I must desire that this injury shall not degrade me. I must desire this out of love for him who inflicts it, in order that he may not really have done evil.

Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms.

It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

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