Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.

There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.

Only an indirect method is effective. We do nothing if we have not first drawn back.

[We are not] to take one step, even in the direction of what is good, beyond that to which we are irresistibly impelled by God, and this applies to action, word, and thought.

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.

Every atheist is an idolater- unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are idolaters.

Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.