Leon Bloy Quotes & Sayings

The worst evil is not to commit crimes, but to fail to do the good one might have done. — Leon Bloy

There is only one misery . . . not to be saints. — Leon Bloy

I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire. — Leon Bloy

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

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

Suffering passes, but the fact of having suffered never passes. — Leon Bloy

Every man who begets a free act projects his personality into the infinite. If he gives a poor man a penny grudgingly, that penny pierces the poor man's hand, falls, pierces the earth, bores holes in suns, crosses the firmament and compromises the universe. If he begets an impure act, he perhaps darkens thousands of hearts whom he does not know, who are mysteriously linked to him, and who need this man to be pure as a traveler dying of thirst needs the Gospel's draught of water. A charitable act, an impulse of real pity sings for him the divine praises, from the time of Adam to the end of the ages; it cures the sick, consoles those in despair, calms storms, ransoms prisoners, converts the infidel and protects mankind — Leon Bloy

The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint. — Leon Bloy

Any Christian who is not a hero is a pig. — Leon Bloy

There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint. — Leon Bloy

Chance is the modern word for Holy Spirit. — Leon Bloy

There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be. — Leon Bloy