Quotes by Bernanos, Georges

When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Qu >>

God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, wh >>

The world is eaten up by boredom. You can't see it all at once. It is >>

Quotations about Hell

It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal p >>

Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those >>

O Lord, wandering with thee, even hell itself would be to me a heaven >>

And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your convict prisons on earth, to which you condemn in advance all the wretched felons your police have hunted from the beginning -- enemies of society, as you call them. You're kind enough to include the blasphemers and the profane. What proud or reasonable man could stomach such a notion of God's justice? And when you find that notion inconvenient it's easy enough for you to put it on one side. Hell is not to love any more, Madame. Not to love any more!

Bernanos, Georges