Georges Bernanos Quotes

Our rages daughters of despair creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt whic...

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem o...

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

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

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

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much and an action which does not proceed f...

Hell, madam, is to love no longer.

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

Hope is a risk that must be run.

Fear true fear is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable it is surely the...

Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness ...

And now she was thinking of her own death, with her heart gripped not by fear but by the excitement ...

Lust is a mysterious wound in the side of humanity; or rather, at the very source of its life! To co...

O miracle—thus to be able to give [peace] we ourselves do not possess, sweet miracle of our empty ha...

Satan is too hard a master. He would never command as did the Other with divine simplicity: 'Do like...

I have no ambition to change my nature, I merely intend to conquer my dislikes.

Teaching is no joke, sonny! ... Comforting truths, they call it! Truth is meant to save you first, a...

We priests are sneered at and always shall be—the accusation is such an easy one—as deeply envious, ...

We pay a heavy, very heavy price for the superhuman dignity of our calling. The ridiculous is always...

His face frankly displays his suffering, expressing it with a truly royal simplicity. At such moment...

A Christian people doesn't mean a lot of goody-goodies. The Church has plenty of stamina, and isn't ...

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.

The work God carries out in us,' he said after a short pause, 'is not often what we expect. A great ...

The usual notion of prayer is so absurd. How can those who know nothing about it, who pray little or...

Hell madame is to love no longer.