Fire destroys that which feeds it.

What hope is there for innocence if it is not recognized?

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.

It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.

The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.