“One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.”

“Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.”

“If the error is thrust deeply enough into the soul, man cannot but succumb to it.”

“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.”

“Men owe us what they imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.”

“He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.”

“We cannot take a step toward the heavens. God crosses the universe and comes to us.”