Jean Guitton Quotes

L'ateismo non è soltanto macchinoso e raro, è anche un fenomeno recente, una bizzarria sostenuta da pochi e da poco tempo nel solo ambiente di certa intelligentia occidentale.

Teresa of Lisieux will give new splendour to the word. What she says, she does. And her words are oracles. I said “words”; I distinguish them from “phrases”. Teresa's phrases, in truth, are imperfect. Imperfect because of the weakness of men, who have given her a very mediocre language.

Generals do not fight with the fear of the troops, they prefer to keep them busy.

Paul VI told me that the prayer he recited every morning was: “My God, call me back to You, call me back to You, I can't take it anymore”. I believe that all popes recite this prayer, even John Paul II.

Love always envelops us: it is we, with our attitude towards it, who transform it into fire or light.

Jewish thought was oriented towards the future. In the history of the past, it sought the image of what did not yet exist.

What is the charm of a person? It is difficult to say, because charm is indefinable. It is a certain presence of the person beyond their limits, like the radiance of certain pure faces.

So today Mass risks resembling a liturgy of the word? A: