We live as if we were unaware of our impending destruction

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

Only the noble of heart are called to difficulty.

Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.

This is all that I've known for certain, that God is love. Even if I have been mistaken on this or that point: God is nevertheless love.

The absurd . . . the fact that with God all things are possible. The absurd is not one of the factors which can be discriminated within the proper compass of the understanding: it is not identical with the improbable, the unexpected, the unforeseen.

If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much.