Georges Bernanos Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• Hope is a risk that must be run.

  Georges Bernanos

  Inspirational, Running, Hope

  Georges Bernanos (1955). “Last essays”

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

  Georges Bernanos

  Faith, Literature, Shapes

  Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.122, Da Capo Press

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

  Georges Bernanos

  Mean, Tyrants, Deception

  Georges Bernanos (1955). “Last essays”

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

  Georges Bernanos

  Rights, Doe, Literature

  Georges Bernanos (1955). “Last essays”

• 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

  Mother, War, Lying

  Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.154, Da Capo Press

• 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

  Punishment, Doe, Needs

  Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.126, Da Capo Press

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