Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity. Georges Bernanos More Quotes by Georges Bernanos More Quotes From Georges Bernanos God knows that we should not despise anything. We must do our best. Georges Bernanos god-knows despise should Like all truly pure souls she [Chantal] quickly resigned herself to past faults, thought only of how to repair whatever harm they had done. "Of all my daughters, you are certainly the least bothered by scruples of conscience," Abbé Chevance used to say.... Even sin, once the will is detached and no longer nourishes it, withers and dies sterile. It is in the secret of intentions, like in a decomposing humus, in the dark forest of future sins, unpardoned sins, half dead, half living, that new poisons are distilled. Georges Bernanos daughter dark past God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish? Georges Bernanos mask failing hypocrisy The contradictions in Renan , his feminine sensibility, coquetry, unavowed egotism, and sudden emotional outbursts, all indicate a soul deliberately using distraction as a means of evasion. The perpetual equivocation bears witness to God in the same way as the twisting and turning of a hunted animal indicates the presence of an unseen hunter. Georges Bernanos emotional animal mean 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 I can now see to the bottom of my own depths, there is nothing stopping my gaze, no obstacle is in the way. And there is nothing there. Georges Bernanos stopping depth way Optimism has always seemed to me the cunning alibi of egoists, anxious to cover up their state of chronic self-satisfaction. They are optimists in order to avoid pitying other men and their misfortune. ~~ Yet pity is a vexed question. Georges Bernanos self men order Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Georges Bernanos powerful justice hands Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things, He gave it a chance, He even provided a first installment of funds. Can you beat that? It's so magnificent. God despises nothing. After all, if the deal had come off, Judas would probably have endowed sanatoriums, hospitals, public libraries or laboratories. Georges Bernanos library tiny firsts Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright. Georges Bernanos despair daughter prayer [T]he cradle is shallower than the grave. Georges Bernanos cradle graves No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness. Georges Bernanos depth lonely loneliness When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you're bound to realize that if humankind have not yet finished being revenged, by sheer laughter, for being let down in their greatest hope, it is because that hope was cherished so long and lay so deep! Georges Bernanos laughter book thinking All her life she [Chantal] had been carefully, heroically watching over mediocre beings who were hardly real, over things of no value. Georges Bernanos values mediocre real The most dangerous of our calculations are those we call illusions. Georges Bernanos illusion dangerous danger Le de s ir de la prie' re est de j a' une prie' re. The wish for prayer is already a prayer. Georges Bernanos irs prayer wish More often than not, nothingness is reluctantly and despairingly taken to be the only hypothesis possible when all the others have failed, since by definition it cannot be disproven and is beyond the scope of reason. Georges Bernanos definitions taken reason What does it matter, all is grace. Georges Bernanos grace matter doe If hell has no answer for the questioning dead, it is not because it refuses to answer (for rigorous, alas, in observance, is the imperishable fire), but it is because hell has nothing to say, will say nothing eternally. Georges Bernanos hell fire answers Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There is naught to equal its drive, and naught can survive its thrust. Georges Bernanos savages anticipation insanity
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