An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God. Votes: 8
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought. Votes: 4
Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication. Votes: 4
Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication. Votes: 0
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does. Votes: 0
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. Votes: 0
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work. Votes: 0
In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs. Votes: 0
All sins are attempts to fill voids. Votes: 0
We must love all facts, not for their consequences, but because in each fact God is there present. Votes: 0
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission. Votes: 0
One must always be prepared to switch sides with justice, that fugitive of the winning camp. Votes: 0
Patriotism is idolatry of the self. Votes: 0
Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself. Votes: 0
Humility is attentive patience. Votes: 0
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her. Votes: 0
Algebra and money are essentially levelers; the first intellectually, the second effectively. Votes: 0
Art has no immediate future, because all art is collective and there is no more collective life. Votes: 0
Conformity is an imitation of grace. Votes: 0
Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth. Votes: 0
Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity. Votes: 0
Distance is the soul of beauty. Votes: 0
Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries. Votes: 0
Fire destroys that which feeds it. Votes: 0
God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it. Votes: 0
I can, therefore I am. Votes: 0
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money. Votes: 0
In reality nothing is so beautiful as the good, nothing is so monotonous and boring as evil. Votes: 0
Man alone can enslave man. Votes: 0
Necessity is God's veil. Votes: 0
Of two men who have no experience of God, he who denies him is perhaps nearer to him than the other. Votes: 0
One must always be ready to change sides with justice, that fugitive from the winning camp. Votes: 0
Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable. Votes: 0
Renunciation is submission to time. Votes: 0
The only great spirit of our time. Votes: 0
The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it. Votes: 0
The simultaneous existence of opposite virtues in the soul like pincers to catch hold of God. Votes: 0
The world is God's language to us. Votes: 0
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction. Votes: 0
There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is. Votes: 0
Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it. Votes: 0
To be innocent is to bear the weight of the entire universe. It is to throw away the counterweight. Votes: 0
Truth is one, but error is manifold. Votes: 0
War is the supreme form of prestige. Votes: 0
We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them but by waiting for them. Votes: 0
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them. Votes: 0