Leon Bloy famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have existence.
-- Leon Bloy

#Heart #Men #Order
There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint.
-- Leon Bloy

#Faith #Inspiration #Tragedy
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 Bloy

#Doe #Weak #Source
Any Christian who is not a hero is a pig.
-- Leon Bloy

#Christian #Hero #Pigs
The only real sadness, the only real failure, the onlyÂ great tragedyÂ inÂ life, is not to become a saint.
-- Leon Bloy

#Real #Sadness #Tragedy
There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.
-- Leon Bloy

#Death #Heart #Suffering
I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire.
-- Leon Bloy

#Prayer #Fire #Doors
Suffering passes, but the fact of having suffered never passes.
-- Leon Bloy

#Inspirational #Suffering #Facts

Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within.
A divided heart loses both worlds.
With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad.
Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.
I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.
We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.
In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.
Calvinism is an all-embracing system of principles... It is rooted in a form of religion which was peculiarly its own, and form that specific religious consciousness there was developed first a particular theology, then a special church-order, and then a given form for political and social life.

Leon Bloy famous quotes

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