It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.

Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice.

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

Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.

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 apprehension of necessity is an imitation of creation.

Sin is nothing else but the failure to recognize human wretchedness.