The beauty of the world is Christ's tender smile for us coming through matter.

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

If there were no affliction in this world we might think we were in paradise.

Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.

To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at least the thing that had been called by that name for the last four centuries. What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don't know what it is. Nobody knows what it is.

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.