“All sins are attempts to fill voids.”

“All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass.”

“Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness. ”

“Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.”

“When I think of the Crucifixion, I commit the sin of envy.”

“The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes. ”

“The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?”