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

“All sins are attempts to fill voids.”

“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.”

“Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when he is there (or when we think about him). Or rather, to read in him that he is certainly something different, perhaps something completely different from what we read in him.Every being cries out silently to be read differently.”

“I can, therefore I am.”

“It seemed to me certain, and I still think so today, that one can never wrestle enough with God if one does so out of pure regard for the truth. Christ likes us to prefer truth to him because, before being Christ, he is truth. If one turns aside from him to go toward the truth, one will not go far before falling into his arms. ”