Man is bound to lie about himself.
There is no sin, and there can be no sin on all the earth, which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant! Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God. Can there be a sin which could exceed the love of God?
Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.
Being in love doesn’t mean loving.
The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.
I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.
My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it’s absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so.
To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her.
Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.
From a hundred rabbits you can’t make a horse.
Woe to the man who offends a small child!
I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease – a genuine, absolute disease.
He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.
I believe there is no one deeper, lovelier, more sympathetic and more perfect than Jesus...
A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.
If there were no God, he would have to be invented.
If you love all things, you will also attain the divine mystery that is in all things. For then your ability to perceive the truth will grow every day, and your mind will open itself to an all-embracing love.
If you can put the question, ‘Am I or am I not responsible for my acts?’ then you are responsible.
I’ve always considered myself smarter than everyone around me, and sometimes, believe me, I’ve been ashamed of it. At the least, all my life I’ve looked away and never could look people straight in the eye.
Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.