If it were conceivable that in obeying God one should bring about one's own damnation whilst in disobeying him one could be saved, I should still choose the way of obedience.

Evil is license, and that is why it is monotonous: everything has to be drawn from ourselves. One is condemned to false infinity. That is hell itself.

We must love all facts, not for their consequences, but because in each fact God is there present.

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection, there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sigh that you will recognize it.

All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time.

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