The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.

Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

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