Friar! What a strange name. I don't remember having created such a thing!

I have to believe much in God because I have lost my faith in man.

I don't see why I should bow my head when I could hold it high, or place it in the hands of my enemies when I can defeat them.

How long have you been away from the country?" Laruja asked Ibarra. "Almost seven years." "Then you have probably forgotten all about it." "Quite the contrary. Even if my country does seem to have forgotten me, I have always thought about it.

No, let us not make God in our image, poor inhabitants that we are of a distant planet lost in infinite space. However brilliant and sublime our intelligence may be, it is scarcely more than a small spark which shines and in an instant is extinguished, and it alone can give us no idea of that blaze, that conflagration, that ocean of light!

To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence it would be to doubt everything.

The people do not complain because they have no voice; do not move because they are lethargic, and you say that they do not suffer because you have not seen their hearts bleed.