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

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

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

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.