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Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
— Georges Bernanos
Optimism approves of everything, submits to everything, believes everything; it is the virtue above all of the taxpayer.
— Georges Bernanos
Void fascinates those who daren't look into it. They throw themselves in, for fear of falling.
— Georges Bernanos
I don't think we can ever learn much from ultra-sensitive, shifty faces, skilled in disguise, that hide themselves in lust, as beasts hide to die.
— Georges Bernanos
A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
— Georges Bernanos
Do you think chance is really just the logic of God?
— Georges Bernanos
God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.
— Georges Bernanos
You owe it to everyone you love to find pockets of tranquility in your busy world.
— Georges Bernanos
The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.
— Georges Bernanos
The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
— Georges Bernanos
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.
— Georges Bernanos
Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward.
— Georges Bernanos
Hell, madame, is to love no longer.
— Georges Bernanos
[T]here is nothing that God hates so much as a liar.
— Georges Bernanos
I have just discovered something I have always known: we can no more escape from one another than we can escape from God.
— Georges Bernanos
Nothing but a little savage...
— Georges Bernanos
What does it matter, all is grace.
— Georges Bernanos
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
Hell, madam, is to love no longer.
— Georges Bernanos
It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
— Georges Bernanos
Hell is not to love anymore.
— Georges Bernanos
O miracle - thus to be able to give [peace] we ourselves do not possess, sweet miracle of our empty hands!
— Georges Bernanos
[T]he cradle is shallower than the grave.
— Georges Bernanos
The devil, you see, is that friend who never stays with us to the end.
— Georges Bernanos
Faith is not a thing which one 'loses', we merely cease to shape our lives by it.
— Georges Bernanos
Our habits are our friends. Even our bad habits.
Diary of a Country Priest — Georges Bernanos
Diary of a Country Priest — Georges Bernanos
Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.
— Georges Bernanos
God knows that we should not despise anything. We must do our best.
— Georges Bernanos
The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.
— Georges Bernanos
...men are as vulnerable to joy as they are to suffering.
— Michel Bernanos
Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.
— Georges Bernanos
[A]ll her life she [Chantal] had been carefully, heroically watching over mediocre beings who were hardly real, over things of no value.
— Georges Bernanos
God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?
— Georges Bernanos
Only the present counts.
— Georges Bernanos
[F]irst of all, be what you are.
— Georges Bernanos
Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
— Georges Bernanos
To be able to share in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness.
— Georges Bernanos
Appearances are nothing ... And first of all they should not be feared, they are only dangerous to the weak.
— Georges Bernanos
Hope is a risk that must be run.
— Georges Bernanos
Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.
— Georges Bernanos
Truth is meant to save you first. The comfort comes afterward.
— Georges Bernanos
There remains the unforseen. And the unforseen is never negligible.
— Georges Bernanos
No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.
— Georges Bernanos
The most dangerous of our calculations are those we call illusions.
— Georges Bernanos