Tag: Georges Bernanos

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society

Georges Bernanos | society

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

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peace

Georges Bernanos | peace

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

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knowledge

Georges Bernanos | knowledge

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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hope

Georges Bernanos | hope

Hope is a risk that must be run.

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hope

Georges Bernanos | hope

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

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Fear

Georges Bernanos | fear

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

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Faith

Georges Bernanos | faith

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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Faith

Georges Bernanos | faith

Faith is not a thing which one ‘loses,’ we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

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Death

Georges Bernanos | death

Hell, madam, is to love no longer.

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The Diary of a Country Priest

Quote from Georges Bernanos, The Diary of a Country Priest

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.

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