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

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

Men owe us what we imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.

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

The speed with which bureaucracy has invaded almost every branch of human activity is something astounding once one thinks about it.

All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. 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. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass.

Money destroys human roots wherever it is able to penetrate, by turning desire for gain into the sole motive. It easily manages to outweigh all other motives, because the effort it demands of the mind is so very much less. Nothing is so clear and so simple as a row of figures.