It is tragic-comic to see that all this knowledge and understanding exercises no power at all over men's lives, that their lives do not express in the remotest way what they have understood, but rather the opposite.

Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all. Love discovers truths about individuals that others cannot see

To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one's breast and groan over oneself.

...the reason for [this age's] anxiety and unrest is because in one direction, 'truth' increases in scope and quantity - via science and technology - while in the other, certainty and confidence steadily decline. Our age is a master in developing truths while being wholly indifferent to certitude. It lacks confidence in the good.

Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent, Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love

To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking him.

It takes moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice.