Georges Bernanos quotes Born: 02/20/1888 Died: 00/00/1948 Country: france

• The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more. (Georges Bernanos) [state/duties/more]
• The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. (Georges Bernanos) [corruption/society/start]
• Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it. (Georges Bernanos) [faith/thing]
• No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness. (Georges Bernanos)
• Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses. (Georges Bernanos) [men]
• The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us. (Georges Bernanos) [wish/prayer/god/more]
• A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread. (Georges Bernanos) [needs/more]
• 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. (Georges Bernanos) [result/action/action]
• 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/knowledge/speak/faith]
• It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man. (Georges Bernanos) [fear/fear/fear/face]
• What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around. (Georges Bernanos) [pity/irony/flight]

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