Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being who is as necessary to him as food.

One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.

Whoever is uprooted himself uproots others. Whoever is rooted himself doesn't uproot others.

Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.

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

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

When an apprentice gets hurt, or complains of being tired, the workmen and peasants have this fine expression: "It is the trade entering his body." Each time that we have some pain to go through, we can say to ourselves quite truly that it is the universe, the order and beauty of the world, and the obedience of God that are entering our body.