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 beautiful is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible.

Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.

Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.

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.

Just as a person who is always asserting that he is too good-natured is the very one from whom to expect, on some occasion, the coldest and most unconcerned cruelty, so when any group sees itself as the bearer of civilization this very belief will betray it into behaving barbarously at the first opportunity.