An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.

The entire universe is nothing but a great metaphor.

Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when he is there (or when we think about him). Or rather, to read in him that he is certainly something different, perhaps something completely different from what we read in him. Every being cries out silently to be read differently.

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