Leon Bloy Quotes

#1. There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.

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#2. There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint.

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#3. 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.

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#4. Any Christian who is not a hero is a pig.

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#5. Chance is the modern word for Holy Spirit.

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#6. There is only one misery . . . not to be saints.

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#7. I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire.

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#8. Suffering passes, but the fact of having suffered never passes.

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#9. Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have existence.

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#10. The worst evil is not to commit crimes, but to fail to do the good one might have done.

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#11. The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.

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