I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.
Georges BernanosGod ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.
Georges BernanosLittle things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
Georges BernanosCivilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
Georges Bernanos