108 Quotes by Georges Bernanos

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

No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.

Hope is a risk that must be run.

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

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!

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

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.

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

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