Georges Bernanos

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

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

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

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man. ”

Hell, madam, is to love no longer. ”

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. ”

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

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. ”

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

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