Leon Bloy quotes
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“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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“There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint.”
-- Leon BloySource : "Catholic Christianity: A Complete Catechism of Catholic Beliefs Based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church". Book by Peter Kreeft, 2001.
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“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 BloySource : Léon Bloy, Jeanne Molbech Bloy (1937). “Letters to His Fiancée”
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“Any Christian who is not a hero is a pig.”
-- Leon BloySource : "Shouts and Whispers: Twenty-One Writers Speak about Their Writing and Their Faith". Book by Jennifer L. Holberg, March 31, 2006.
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“The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.”
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“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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“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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“Suffering passes, but the fact of having suffered never passes.”
-- Leon BloySource : Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry, Volume 19, Association of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry, 1984.
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Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
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“A divided heart loses both worlds.”
Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
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Source : Shropshire Lad (1896) no. 54
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Source : A. B. Simpson (1987). “Missionary Messages: For a Church that Needs to Hear”, p.23, Moody Publishers
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“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”
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