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Georges Bernanos
French
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It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
Georges Bernanos,
French
Author
#Order
#Pride
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,
French
Author
#Truth
#Sons
#Lies
#Taste
#Mothers
Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward.
Georges Bernanos,
French
Author
#Comfort
#First
#Truth
The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.
Georges Bernanos,
French
Author
#God
#Prayer
The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.
Georges Bernanos,
French
Author
#State
#Rights
The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
Georges Bernanos,
French
Author
#End
#First
#Society
#Corruption
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,
French
Author
#Supernatural
#Faith
#Knowledge
#Obvious
#Purity
#Punishment
Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.
Georges Bernanos,
French
Author
#Sin
Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
Georges Bernanos,
French
Author
#Nothing
#Peace
#Flowers
Faith is not a thing which one "loses," we merely cease to shape our lives by it.
Georges Bernanos,
French
Author
#Faith
It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
Georges Bernanos,
French
Author
#Fear
#Man
Hope is a risk that must be run.
Georges Bernanos,
French
Author
#Hope
#Risk
Hell, madam, is to love no longer.
Georges Bernanos,
French
Author
#Love
#Hell
Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
Georges Bernanos,
French
Author
#May
#Men
#Civilization
A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
Georges Bernanos,
French
Author
#Hope
#Nothing
#Man
#Needs
#Poor
#Illusion
No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.
Georges Bernanos,
French
Author
#Loneliness
A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
Georges Bernanos,
French
Author
#Action
#Nothing
#Thought
#Result