"We know well only what we are deprived…" — Francois Mauriac
"We know well only what we are deprived of."
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Francois Mauriac
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31 Quotes by Francois Mauriac
Francois Mauriac has 31 quotes on this site.
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It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up,…
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Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.
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The temples of those who deny the Real Presence are like corpses. The Lord was taken away and we do…
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This God who, as the psalmist said, built His tabernacles in the sun, now establishes Himself in the very core…
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Being for every man the touchstone of faith and love, the Eucharist, like on the Cross, divided the minds as…
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The man who partakes in the breaking of the bread dares to build his house on the very core of…
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The Eucharist engages us unreservedly; it is a pact of love, an alliance signed in the deeper recesses of our…
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That is the mystery of grace: it never comes too late.
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We are, all of us, molded and remolded by those who have loved us, and though that love may pass,…
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The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling.
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Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.
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I love Germany so much I'm glad there are two of them.
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Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.
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I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried…
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— Jimmy Carter
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I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and…
— Marie Antoinette
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Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become…
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No poor, rural, weak, or black person should ever again have to bear the additional burden of being deprived of…
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The real illness of the American city today, and especially of the deprived groups within it, is voicelessness.
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Anti-Semitism hits me on the head: I am enraged, I am bled white by an appalling battle, I am deprived…
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