“In the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in them.”

Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases – or ever has released at any moment in History – a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day – and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.

All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at any moment of my life, experienced the least difficulty in addressing myself to God as to a supreme Someone.

No longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Everywhere on Earth, at this moment, in the new spiritual atmosphere created by the appearance of the idea of evolution, there float, in a state of extreme mutual sensitivity, love of God and faith in the world: the two essential components of the Ultra-human.

It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence.

Humanity at the centre of the primates, Homo sapiens, in humanity, is the end-product of a gradual work of creation, the successive sketches for which still surround us on every side.

Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples.

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

All satanic works are performed from the outside inward; all divine works from the inside outward.

My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.

The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.

What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.

Certain temperaments respond to anxiety by pulling inward.

Thus any increase of outward splendor is usually a sign of a decrease in inward illumination

The precept to worship God ‘in spirit and in truth’ recommand to worship him as an inward and moral force, without physical attributes and with no relation to fears and egoist wishes.

Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.