5 Albert Camus Quotes on Religion

Albert Camus quotes on religion

68. So many men are deprived of grace. How can one live without grace? One has to try it and do what Christianity never did: be concerned with the damned.

87. Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man.

171. Messianism, in order to exist, must construct a defense against the victims.

193. The Church has been so harsh with heretics only because she deemed that there is no worse enemy than a child who has gone astray. But the record of Gnostic effronteries and the persistence of Manichean currents have contributed more to the construction of orthodox dogma than all the prayers.

208. The night on Golgotha is so important in the history of man only because, in its shadow, the divinity abandoned its traditional privileges and drank to the last drop, despair included, the agony of death. This is the explanation of the Lama sabactani and the heartrending doubt of Christ in agony. The agony would have been mild if it had been alleviated by hopes of eternity. For God to be a man, he must despair.