God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

One might lay down as a postulate: All conceptions of God which are incompatible with a movement of pure charity are false. All other conceptions of him, in varying degree, are true.

Truth is one, but error is manifold.

Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms.

Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.

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