Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.

It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.

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.

The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.

He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.