The world can no more have two summits than a circumference can have two centres.

A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows.

All the communions of a life-time are one communion.All the communions of all men now living are one communion.All the communions of all men, present, past and future, are one communion.

In the spiritual life, as in all organic processes, everyone has their optimum and it is just as harmful to go beyond it as not to attain it.

We are like soldiers who fall during the assault which leads to peace.

Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current towards the open seas.

By virtue of creation, and still more the incarnation, nothing here is profane for those who know how to see.

God is inexhaustibly attainable in the totality of our action.

At the heart of our universe, each soul exists for God, in our Lord.

As a result of changes which, over the last century, have modified our empirically based pictures of the world and hence the moral value of many of its elements, the "human religious ideal" inclines to stress certain tendencies and to express itself in terms which seem, at first sight, no longer to coincide with the "christian religious ideal".