People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.

This age will die not as a result of some evil, but from a lack of passion.

To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.

What I really need is to get clear out about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge precedes every act.

To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.

Prayer is a silent surrendering of everything to God.

The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.