Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

[We are not] to take one step, even in the direction of what is good, beyond that to which we are irresistibly impelled by God, and this applies to action, word, and thought.

Love: To feel with one's whole self the existence of another being.

Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.