“Two forces rule the universe: light and gravity.”

“Love is not consolation. It is light.”

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

“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.”

“There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.”

“Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.”

“Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.”