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[From a Japanese history professor just after the bombing of Hiroshima:]

I climbed Hikiyama Hill and looked down. I saw that Hiroshima had disappeared. . . I was shocked at the sight. . . What I felt then and still feel now I just can’t explain with words. Of course I saw many dreadful scenes after that—but that experience, looking down and finding nothing left of Hiroshima—was so shocking that I simply can’t express what I felt. . . Hiroshima didn’t exist—that was mainly what I saw—Hiroshima just didn’t exist.

[From ex-communist André Frossard writing more than thirty years later about a religious experience he had in a chapel in Paris in 1935:]

Now by an amazing chance it so happens that, in respect of the most stubborn of disputes, the most ancient of controversies, I know the truth.

God exists.

I have met Him.

The meeting was unexpected. . . It created the sort of astonishment a man might feel if he went round the corner of a road in Paris and saw before him, not the familiar square or crossroads but an unexpected and boundless ocean lapping at the doorsteps of the houses. It was a moment of utter astonishment which is still with me. I have never got used to the existence of God.

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