"The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power……" — Francois Mauriac
"The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling."
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31 Quotes by Francois Mauriac
Francois Mauriac has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up,…
- 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…
- This God who, as the psalmist said, built His tabernacles in the sun, now establishes Himself in the very core…
- Being for every man the touchstone of faith and love, the Eucharist, like on the Cross, divided the minds as…
- The man who partakes in the breaking of the bread dares to build his house on the very core of…
- The Eucharist engages us unreservedly; it is a pact of love, an alliance signed in the deeper recesses of our…
- 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,…
- 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…
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