The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have the capacity do not possess it.

If you say to someone who has ears to hear: "What you are doing to me is not just," you may touch and awaken at its source the spirit of attention and love. But it is not the same with words like, "I have the right..." or "you have no right to..." They evoke a latent war and awaken the spirit of contention.

Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.

The speed with which bureaucracy has invaded almost every branch of human activity is something astounding once one thinks about it.

We do injury to a child if we bring it up in a narrow Christianity, which prevents it from ever becoming capable of perceiving that there are treasures of purest gold to be found in non-Christian civilizations. Laical education does an even greater injury to children. It covers up those treasures, and those of Christianity as well.

Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.

Time's violence rends the soul, by the rent eternity enters.