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

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

Everybody knows that really intimate conversation is only possible between two or three. As soon as there are six or seven, collective language begins to dominate. That is why it is a complete misinterpretation to apply to the Church the words 'Wheresoever two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.' Christ did not say two hundred, or fifty, or ten. He said two or three.

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.

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

It is not enough that France should be regarded as a country which enjoys the remains of a freedom acquired long ago. If she is still to count in the world--and if she does not intend to, she may as well perish--she must be seen by her own citizens and by all men as an ever-flowing source of liberty. There must not be a single genuine lover of freedom in the whole world who can have a valid reason for hating France.

Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it.