It is a sad and very melancholy scene, which must strike everyone who knows and feels that we also have to pass one day through the valley of the shadow of death, and “que la fin de la vie humaine, ce sont des larmes ou des cheveux blancs.” What lies beyond this is a great mystery that only God knows, but He has revealed absolutely through His word that there is a resurrection of the dead.

Love is eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence. 


I wanted to make people think of a totally different way of living from that which we, educated people, live. I would absolutely not want anyone to find it beautiful or good without a thought.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

I myself am quite absorbed by the delicate yellow, delicate soft green, delicate violet of a ploughed and weeded piece of soil.

I believe more and more that God must not be judged on this earth. It is one of His sketches that has turned out badly.