“The main thing for inner contentment is to be in a state of grace. And there is an artistic state of grace, for art is a kind of religion.”
“Actually loneliness has a kind of fascination; it's a state of egotistical, inner grace that you can achieve only by standing guard on old, forgotten roads that no one travels anymore.”
“After all, Goodness is a state of grace. Evil, is a state of mind.”
“I would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the eye of God.”
“The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer; it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.”
“A soul in a state of grace has nothing to fear of demons who are cowards.”