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Georges Bernanos

Georges Bernanos

French Author

Born: Feb 20, 1888

Died: Jul 5, 1948

Does First Man Nothing Truth You

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

Together Peace Gardening Little Things Nothing Air Those Seem Give Individually Like Perfume Which Meadow Little Things Flowers

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

God Prayer Wish More Pray Itself Than Ask Us

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

Faith Our Our Lives Shape Merely Loses Cease Which Lives Thing

Hope is a risk that must be run. Georges Bernanos

Hope Run Must Risk

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. Georges Bernanos

Result Thought Nothing Action Does Proceed Which Much

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