Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded him.
Ernest RenanNo idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.
Ernest RenanA grain of sand leads to the fall of a mountain when the moment has come for the mountain to fall.
Ernest Renan