The man of faith who has never experienced doubt is not a man of faith.

To become attached to the experience of peace is to threaten the true and essential and vital union of our soul with God above sense and experience in the darkness of a pure and perfect love.

Love not only prefers the good of another to my own, but it does not even compare the two.

Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.

Good moral actions are not enough. Everything in us, from the very depths, must be cleansed and reordered.

May God prevent us from becoming "right-thinking men"-that is to say men who agree perfectly with their own police.

But precisely this illusion that everything is "clear" is what is blinding us all. It is a serious temptation, and it is a subtle form of pride and worldly love of power and revenge.