We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

Power ... is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

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.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.