“A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless. ”

“We have to believe in a God who is like the true God in everything except that he does not exist, since we have not reached the point where God exists.”

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

“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.”

“The extreme affliction which overtakes human beings does not create human misery, it merely reveals it.”

“Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.”

“We cannot take a step toward the heavens. God crosses the universe and comes to us.”