Leon Bloy Quotes

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

  Leon Bloy

  Real, Sadness, Tragedy

  65 Copy quote

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

  Leon Bloy

  Heart, Men, Order

  70 Copy quote

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

  Leon Bloy

  Inspirational, Suffering, Facts

  Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry, Volume 19, Association of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry, 1984.

  34 Copy quote

• Love does not make you weak, because it is the source of all strength, but it makes you see the nothingness of the illusory strength on which you depended before you knew it.

  Leon Bloy

  Doe, Weak, Source

  Léon Bloy, Jeanne Molbech Bloy (1937). “Letters to His Fiancée”

  34 Copy quote

• Any Christian who is not a hero is a pig.

  Leon Bloy

  Christian, Hero, Pigs

  "Shouts and Whispers: Twenty-One Writers Speak about Their Writing and Their Faith". Book by Jennifer L. Holberg, March 31, 2006.

  21 Copy quote

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

  Leon Bloy

  Prayer, Fire, Doors

  28 Copy quote

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

  Leon Bloy

  Death, Grief, Heart

  16 Copy quote

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

  Leon Bloy

  Faith, Inspiration, Catholic

  "Catholic Christianity: A Complete Catechism of Catholic Beliefs Based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church". Book by Peter Kreeft, 2001.

  31 Copy quote

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin