Who are you to condemn anothers sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it. – Georges Bernanos
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
The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us. – Georges Bernanos
The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more. – Georges Bernanos
But real action is in silent moments. The epochs of our life are not in the visible facts of our choice of a calling, our marriage, our acquisition of an office, and the like, but in a silent thought by the wayside as we walk; in a thought which revises our entire manner of life, and says, – Ralph Waldo Emerson