Academic work is one of those fields which contain a pearl so precious that it is worth while to sell all our possessions, keeping nothing for ourselves, in order to be able to acquire it.

To be innocent is to bear the weight of the entire universe. It is to throw away the counterweight.

The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.

No human being escapes the necessity of conceiving some good outside himself towards which his thought turns in a movement of desire, supplication, and hope.

The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.

We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue.

Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.