It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.
If someone does me injury I must desire that this injury shall not degrade me. I must desire this out of love for him who inflicts it, in order that he may not really have done evil.
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
I can, therefore I am.
To claim that theft or adultery or lying are “evil” simply reflects our degraded idea of good- – that it has something to do with respect for property, respectability, and sincerity.
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself.
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
What is surprising is not that oppression should make its appearance only after higher forms of economy have been reached, but that it should always accompany them.
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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.
We are like plants that have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
Just as the power of the sun is the only force in the natural universe that causes a plant to grow against gravity, so the grace of God is the only force in the spiritual universe that causes a person to grow against the gravity of their own ego.
The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary.
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.
When a man’s life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men’s actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him.