"Unless the world is truly set apart from God and possesses a dependent but real liberty of its own analogous to the f…"

"“It may take either of two forms, according as the sinking into sense directly involves only the violation of the spi…"

"Many times our fellow men are argued and even persuaded into a special turn of mind, and here we often learn by exper…"

"Edvige Carboni lived an ordinary life, from the outside the same as that of so many laypeople, but extraordinary in t…"

"There is a sense in which Ivan's love of that little girl [in The Brothers Karamazov] is always in danger of becoming…"

"(About the Magnificat) Union with God, the great aim of all prayer and all worship finds its clearest expression in t…"

"There is a single main definition of the object of all magical Ritual. It is the uniting of the Microcosm with the Ma…"

"Each one of us must seek God alone, Straining towards him both by reason And by renouncing our own will For the sake …"

"Medical morality should be set within constraints integral to aiming one’s life at holiness, at union with God."

"A divine philosopher is he who through ascetic purification and noetic contemplation has achieved a direct union with…"