Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.

We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.

Creation is an act of love and it is perpetual.

At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.

We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.