We cannot take a step toward the heavens. God crosses the universe and comes to us.

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

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

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.

Christians ought to suspect that affliction is the very essence of creation. To be a created thing is not necessarily to be afflicted, but it is necessarily to be exposed to affliction. ... Affliction is the surest sign that God wishes to be loved by us; it is the most precious evidence of His tenderness.

Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.