Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.
Ernest RenanHis glory Jesus Christ does not consist in beingplaced without the confines of history; a more real worship is paid to him, by showing that the whole of history is incomprehensible without him.
Ernest RenanWhen people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.
Ernest Renan