Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. - Martin Buber

The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.

The prophet is appointed to oppose the king, and even more: history.

I do not rest on the broad upland of a system that includes a series of sure statements about the absolutes, but on a narrow, rocky ridge between the gulfs where there is no sureness of expressible knowledge but [only] the certainty of meeting what remains, undisclosed.