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Georges Bernanos quotes

French Author February 20, 1888 – July 5, 1948

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And now she was thinking of her own death, with her heart gripped not by fear but by the excitement of a great discovery, the feeling that she was about to learn what she had been unable to learn from her brief experience of love. What she thought about death was childish, but what could never have touched her in the past now filled her with poignant tenderness, as sometimes a familiar face we see suddenly with the eyes of love makes us aware that it has been dearer to us than life itself for... Georges Bernanos
How easy it is to hate oneself! True grace is to forget. Yet if pride could die in us, the supreme grace would be to love oneself in all simplicity—as one would love any one of those who themselves have suffered and loved in Christ. Georges Bernanos
Georges Bernanos quote: "Hell, madam, is to love no longer."
Hell, madam, is to love no longer. Georges Bernanos
Georges Bernanos quote: "Our habits are our friends. Even our bad habits." -- Diary..."
Our habits are our friends. Even our bad habits." -- Diary of a Country Priest Georges Bernanos
But I shall give less thought to the future, I shall work in the present. I feel such work is within my power. For I only succeed in small things, and when I am tried by anxiety, I am bound to say it is the small joys that release me. Georges Bernanos
It is one of the most mysterious penalties of men that they should be forced to confide the most precious of their possessions to things so unstable and ever changing, alas, as words. Georges Bernanos
What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast! Georges Bernanos
Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air. Georges Bernanos
Satan is too hard a master. He would never command as did the Other with divine simplicity: 'Do likewise.' The devil will have no victims resemble him. He permits only a rough caricature, impotent, abject, which has to serve as food for eternal irony, the mordant irony of the depths." -- Diary of a Country Priest Georges Bernanos
Georges Bernanos quote: "The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more..."
The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us. Georges Bernanos
Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it. Georges Bernanos
Georges Bernanos quote: "Hope is a risk that must be run."
Hope is a risk that must be run. Georges Bernanos
Georges Bernanos quote: "God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of..."
God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish? Georges Bernanos
Georges Bernanos quote: "A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion,..."
A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread. Georges Bernanos
Georges Bernanos quote: "Void fascinates those who daren't look into it. They throw..."
Void fascinates those who daren't look into it. They throw themselves in, for fear of falling. Georges Bernanos

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