Georges Bernanos Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Georges Bernanos:

Hell, madam, is to love no longer.
~Georges Bernanos


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/georges-bernanos-quotes/#4070362a

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.
~Georges Bernanos


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/georges-bernanos-quotes/#b860aa83

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
~Georges Bernanos


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/georges-bernanos-quotes/#c3f8e84b

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.
~Georges Bernanos


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/georges-bernanos-quotes/#86c611d3

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/georges-bernanos-quotes/#8ecdac69

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/georges-bernanos-quotes/#a52d7828

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/georges-bernanos-quotes/#ce59b4e0

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/georges-bernanos-quotes/#ff924378

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/georges-bernanos-quotes/#e699f9c5

Hope is a risk that must be run.
~Georges Bernanos


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/georges-bernanos-quotes/#8cf10248

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
~Georges Bernanos


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/georges-bernanos-quotes/#a7dc8e58

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/georges-bernanos-quotes/#b7d3ce7a

Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.
~Georges Bernanos


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/georges-bernanos-quotes/#4031370f

No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.
~Georges Bernanos


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/georges-bernanos-quotes/#2f778fe4

Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward.
~Georges Bernanos


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/georges-bernanos-quotes/#a1fb0cb5

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/georges-bernanos-quotes/#5f719c0f

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/georges-bernanos-quotes/#0cd70015

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