An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

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

If we concentrate our attention on trying to solve a problem of geometry, and if at the end of an hour we are no nearer to doing so than at the beginning, we have nevertheless been making progress each minute of that hour in another more mysterious dimension. Without knowing or feeling it, this apparent barren affort has brought more light into the soul.

Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable because we don't happen to have all the data. In mathematics we have all the data, brought together in the full light of demonstration, and yet we don't understand. We always come back to the contemplation of our human wretchedness. What force is in relation to our will, the impenetrable opacity of mathematics is in relation to our intelligence.

God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.

Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice.

God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.