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.

Education-whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people-consists in creating motives.

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.

In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.

The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary.

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.