It seemed to me certain, and I still think so today, that one can never wrestle enough with God if one does so out of pure regard for the truth. Christ likes us to prefer truth to him because, before being Christ, he is truth. If one turns aside from him to go toward the truth, one will not go far before falling into his arms.

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

It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.

Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

Two forces rule the universe: light and gravity.

Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The suffering should be inflicted with the aim of bringing the soul to recognize freely some day that its infliction was just.