Fire destroys that which feeds it.
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
A man thinks he is dying for his country," said Anatole France, "but he is dying for a few industrialists." But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
There is no greater joy for me than looking at the sky on a clear night with an attention so concentrated that all my other thoughts disappear; then one can think that the stars enter into one's soul.
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
The vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence. The destruction of Troy. The fall of the petals from fruit trees in blossom. To know that what is most precious is not rooted in existence - that is beautiful.
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war as an episode in foreign politics when it is especially an act of internal politics and the most atrocious act of all . . . Since the directing apparatus has no other way of fighting the enemy than by sending its own soldiers, under compulsion, to their death-the war of one state against another state resolves itself into a war of the state and the military apparatus against its own people.
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