Leon Bloy Quotes

Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have existence.

There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.

Any Christian who is not a hero is a pig.

Chance is the modern word for Holy Spirit.

There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint.

Suffering passes, but the fact of having suffered never passes.

There is only one misery . . . not to be saints.

The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.

The worst evil is not to commit crimes, but to fail to do the good one might have done.

I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire.