Francois Mauriac Quotes

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• It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up, the small Host that has…
• Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.
• The temples of those who deny the Real Presence are like corpses. The Lord was taken away and we do not know where they have…
• This God who, as the psalmist said, built His tabernacles in the sun, now establishes Himself in the very core of the flesh and the…
• Being for every man the touchstone of faith and love, the Eucharist, like on the Cross, divided the minds as soon as it was announced...…
• The man who partakes in the breaking of the bread dares to build his house on the very core of love. He becomes, as it…
• The Eucharist engages us unreservedly; it is a pact of love, an alliance signed in the deeper recesses of our being. All our potentialities are…
• That is the mystery of grace: it never comes too late.
• We are, all of us, molded and remolded by those who have loved us, and though that love may pass, we remain none the less…
• The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling.
• Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.
• I love Germany so much I'm glad there are two of them.
• Did you ever have a conversation with someone who misunderstood everything you had to say? It's exhausting, and the ironic part is that the more…
• There is no accident in our choice of reading. All our sources are related.
• A man's passion for the mountain is, above all, his childhood which refuses to die.
• Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty.
• The grandeur of man lies in song, not in thought.
• What I fear is not being forgotten after my death, but, rather, not being enough forgotten. As we were saying, it is not our books…
• A cemetery saddens us because it is the only place of the world in which we do not meet our dead again.
• Let us be wary of ready-made ideas about cowardice and courage: the same burden weighs infinitely more heavily on some shoulders than on others.

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