One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.
If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.
All the goods of this world...are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying the desire that perpetually burns within us for an infinite and perfect good.
We possess nothing in the world - a mere chance can strip us of everything - except the power to say 'I.
On reaching a certain degree of pain we lose the world.
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
The world is God's language to us.
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time.
The beauty of the world is Christ's tender smile for us coming through matter.