In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of less value (perhaps) than a human spirit. Its value lies in the greater possibility of attention.

Love: To feel with one's whole self the existence of another being.

At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done

It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

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 contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.