Leon Bloy Quotes

#1. St. Thomas would have agreed with Leon Bloy, who often wrote that in the end there is only one tragedy in life: not to have been a saint.

Peter Kreeft

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

Leon Bloy

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

Leon Bloy

#4. . . . the mind always has logic; it might not be obvious logic, but the mind has its reasons for connecting two seemingly unlike notions. -Carol Muske, Translations: Idea to Image

Robin Behn

#5. He who fears dangers will not perish by them.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#6. It seems strange to think, that what gives us most hope for the future should be called Dolores, said Margaret.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#7. Of course you've got to!

J.K. Rowling

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

Leon Bloy

#9. I'm not in my right mind and even then I'm not sure what I would say back to you.

Jewel E. Ann

#10. I love living with animals. And my children love animals. I love walking around and being with the horses. But the deer? They're naughty.

Stephanie Seymour

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

Leon Bloy

#12. Apology accepted, son. Y'all listen to your better angels next time. They'll save you from having to worry about all the shoulda, coulda, wouldas.

Pam Webber

#13. That was a very good way to get educated, working on the senior problems and learning how to pronounce things.

Richard Feynman

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

Leon Bloy

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

Leon Bloy

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

Leon Bloy

#17. A player is someone - a guy - that messes with girls' emotions just to try and get what they want. I've been asked, 'Do you consider yourself a player?' And the answer is no. I don't think I'm anywhere near that.

Ryan Lochte

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

Leon Bloy

#19. 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.

Leon Bloy

#20. Our challenge is to join forces of the old and the new- experience and experiment, history and destiny, the world of man and the new world of science- but always in accordance with the never-changing word of God.

Thomas S. Monson

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

Leon Bloy

#22. I don't know how to make it better. Neither did I. and maybe ... maybe wouldn't get better. Rider had said nothing last forever, but some things, some scars, ran Too Deep to ever fade away

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#23. If you eat junk, you look like junk. People say, 'It's not my fault, it's my glands.' It's not; it's greed!

Joan Collins

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

Leon Bloy