There are only two sorts of greatness: true greatness, which is of a spiritual order, and the old, old lie of world conquest. Conquest is an ersatz greatness.

It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God to think about me.

To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do with respect for property, respectability, and sincerity.

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

No human being escapes the necessity of conceiving some good outside himself towards which his thought turns in a movement of desire, supplication, and hope.

Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.