How easy it is to hate oneself! True grace is to forget. Yet if pride could die in us, the supreme grace would be to love oneself in all simplicity—as one would love any one of those who themselves have suffered and loved in Christ.
Georges BernanosIt is one of the most mysterious penalties of men that they should be forced to confide the most precious of their possessions to things so unstable and ever changing, alas, as words.
Georges BernanosGod! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?
Georges BernanosThere remains the unforseen. And the unforseen is never negligible.
Georges BernanosVoid fascinates those who daren't look into it. They throw themselves in, for fear of falling.
Georges BernanosSuicide 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 BernanosTag: suicide
And now she was thinking of her own death, with her heart gripped not by fear but by the excitement of a great discovery, the feeling that she was about to learn what she had been unable to learn from her brief experience of love. What she thought about death was childish, but what could never have touched her in the past now filled her with poignant tenderness, as sometimes a familiar face we see suddenly with the eyes of love makes us aware that it has been dearer to us than life itself for longer than we have ever realized.
Georges BernanosTag: death
The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.
Georges BernanosTag: inspirational christianity prayer christian catholicism catholic
But I shall give less thought to the future, I shall work in the present. I feel such work is within my power. For I only succeed in small things, and when I am tried by anxiety, I am bound to say it is the small joys that release me.
Georges BernanosIl faut beaucoup de prodigues pour faire un peuple généreux, beaucoup d'indisciplinés pour faire un peuple libre, et beaucoup de jeunes fous pour faire un peuple héroïque
Georges BernanosTag: liberté générosité héroïsme peuple
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