“God is behind everything, but everything hides God. Things are black, creatures are opaque. To love a being is to render that being transparent.”

“The reduction of the universe to the compass of a single being, and the extension of a single being until it reaches God - that is love. Love is the salute of the angels to the stars.How sad is the heart when rendered sad by love!How great is the void created by the absence of the being who alone fills the world.”

“The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.”

“Because things are not agreeable," said Jean Valjean, "that is no reason for being unjust towards God.”

“The infinite has being. It is there. If infinity had no self then self would not be. But it is. Therefore it has a self. The self of infinity is God.”

“The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.”

“There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.”