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Georges Bernanos Inspirational Quotes (44)

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[T]he cradle is shallower than the grave.
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A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
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Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.
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[A] good Christian does not care for miracles very much, because a miracle is God looking after His own affairs, and we prefer looking after them for Him.
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Hell is not to love anymore.
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The devil, you see, is that friend who never stays with us to the end.
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Hell, madame, is to love no longer.
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First of all, be what you are.
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There is nothing that God hates so much as a liar.
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If hell has no answer for the questioning dead, it is not because it refuses to answer (for rigorous, alas, in observance, is the imperishable fire), but it is because hell has nothing to say, will say nothing eternally.
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Sadness came into the world with Satan - that world our Saviour never prayed for, the world you say I do not know. Oh, it is not so difficult to recognize: it is the world that prefers cold to warmth! What can God find to say to those who, of their own free will, of their own weight incline towards sadness and turn instinctively towards the night?
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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.
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A large number of suspects, both men and women, escaped martial law for lack of any shred of evidence against them on which a court-martial could convict. So they began setting them free in groups, according to their birth-place. But half-way, the car-load would be emptied into a ditch.
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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
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Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.
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Appearances are nothing.... And first of all they should not be feared, they are only dangerous to the weak.
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What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.
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Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.
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The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.
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Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There is naught to equal its drive, and naught can survive its thrust.
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Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice?
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I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.
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Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.
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What does it matter, all is grace.
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