Ordinary people have more confidence in those who have suddenly arrived at that state and are naturally honest than in those who have had to make a p… - Jean Guitton

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.

Beauty is a splendour that must detach itself from those who possess it without them noticing and without returning to them.

If the Church has sometimes been against science, the cause lies in its misreading of the Bible.