If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.

The real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the State.

Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.

Our science is like a store filled with the most subtle intellectual devices for solving the most complex problems, and yet we are almost incapable of applying the elementary principles of rational thought.

Because no other could do it, he himself went to the greatest possible distance, the infinite distance. This infinite distance between God and God, this supreme tearing apart, this incomparable agony, this marvel of love, is the crucifixion. Nothing can be further from God than that which has been made accursed.

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.