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

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

All the goods of this world...are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying the desire that perpetually burns within us for an infinite and perfect good.

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

Distance is the soul of beauty.

Every atheist is an idolater- unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are idolaters.

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