Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

In order to obey God, one must receive his commands. How did it happen that I received them in adolescence, while I was professing atheism? To believe that the desire for good is always fulfilled - that is faith, and whoever has it is not an atheist.

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

In reality nothing is so beautiful as the good, nothing is so monotonous and boring as evil.

The notion of obligations comes before that of rights, which is subordinate and relative to the former. A right is not effectual by itself, but only in relation to the obligation to which it corresponds.

Attentiveness is the heart of prayer.

One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale.