Discovering herself as the end of history, the Madonna now had the light to interpret the time that had gone before. - Jean Guitton

I believe in God because of encounters. All explanations are useless; I believe in encounters.

The most enviable situation is not to be the subject of beauty and to know oneself to be beautiful, but to be the object of beauty and such that only the other enjoys what emanates from us.

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.