To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking him.

God does not think; he creates. He does not exist; he is eternal.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self

Silence is the demon's trap, and the more one is silenced, the more terrible the demon; but silence is also the divinity's mutual understanding with the single individual.

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

You live life looking forward, you understand life looking backward.