Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.

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.

Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms.

Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.

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

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

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