Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French novelist Leon Bloy.
Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Léon Bloy was a French Catholic novelist, essayist, pamphleteer, and satirist, known additionally for his eventual defense of Catholicism and for his influence within French Catholic circles.
I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire.
Any Christian who is not a hero is a pig.
There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.
Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have existence.
There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint.
The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.
Love does not make you weak, because it is the source of all strength, but it makes you see the nothingness of the illusory strength on which you depended before you knew it.
Suffering passes, but the fact of having suffered never passes.