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

The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary.

Love is not consolation, it is light.

A modern factory reaches perhaps almost the limit of horror. Everybody in it is constantly harassed and kept on edge by the interference of extraneous wills while the soul is left in cold desolate misery. What man needs is silence and warmth; what he is given is an icy pandemonium. Physical labor may be painful, but it is not degrading as such. It is not art; it is not science; it is something else, possessing an exactly equal value with art and science, for it provides an equal opportunity to reach the impersonal stage of attention.

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

The feeding of those that are hungry is a form of contemplation.