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It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time.
Armies under the control of ... a sovereign State cannot bring freedom to anyone.
Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.
We cannot take a step toward the heavens. God crosses the universe and comes to us.
It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom.
Only an indirect method is effective. We do nothing if we have not first drawn back.
We should do only those righteous actions which we cannot stop ourselves from doing.
Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.
The world needs saints who have genius, just as a plague-stricken town needs doctors.
There is an easiness in salvation which is more difficult to us than all our efforts.
The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary.
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.
Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.
The real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the State.
The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
One must always be ready to change sides with justice, that fugitive from the winning camp.
In reality nothing is so beautiful as the good, nothing is so monotonous and boring as evil.
We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them but by waiting for them.
Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.
Whoever is uprooted himself uproots others. Whoever is rooted himself doesn't uproot others.
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
Algebra and money are essentially levelers; the first intellectually, the second effectively.
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
The simultaneous existence of opposite virtues in the soul like pincers to catch hold of God.
Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself.
Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.
There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.
Art has no immediate future, because all art is collective and there is no more collective life.
Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
We must love all facts, not for their consequences, but because in each fact God is there present.
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
To be innocent is to bear the weight of the entire universe. It is to throw away the counterweight.
God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.