Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce; for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms. (Les Miserables, p. 514)

At the same time, while there is an infinite outside of us, is there not an infinite within us? These two infinities (frightening plural!), do they not rest superimposed on one another? Does the second infinite not underlie the first, so to speak? Is it not the mirror, the reflection, the echo of the first, an abyss concentric with another abyss? Is this second infinite intelligent, also? Does it think? Does it love? Does it will? If the two infinities are intelligent, each one of them has a principle of will, and there is a "me"in the infinite above, as there is a "me"in the infinite below. The "me"below is the soul; the "me"above is God.
    To place, by process of thought, the infinite below in contact with the infinite above is called, "prayer." (p. 517)

As for methods of prayer, all are good, as long as they are sincere. (p. 518)

We bow to the man who kneels.
A faith is a necessity to man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
To meditate is to labor; to think is to act. (p. 521)

We are for religion, against the religions. (p. 522)