Thinking prevents the unconscious from speaking.

We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything else but beginners, all our life!

There is not true intimacy between souls who do not know how to respect one another's solitude.

We cannot possess the truth fully until it has entered into the very substance of our life by good habits, and by a certain perfection of moral activity.

For the ones who are called saints by human opinion on earth may very well be devils, and their light may very well be darkness

It is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race, though it is a race dedicated to many absurdities and one which makes many terrible mistakes.

The lights of prayer that make us imagine we are beginning to be angels are sometimes only signs that we are finally beginning to be men. We do not have a high enough opinion of our own nature. We think we are at the gates of heaven and we are only just beginning to come into our own realm as free and intelligent beings.