"Every time that a man has, from a pure motive, renounced a possession, a pleasure, a satisfaction, a compensation, he has increased the quantity of being in the universe."

"The essence of Christianity is to love God in his absence."

"The soul's love of God is a participation in the love by which God loves Himself."

"All sins are an attempt to fill an emptiness."

"The great error of the French Revolution was to believe that one could create a good society by decree."