The Diary of a Country Priest

by Georges Bernanos

The opposite of a Christian people is a people grown sad and old.

Childhood and old age should be the two greatest trials of mankind.

What we would have got rid of, what we would have torn from the very heart of Adam, is that sense of his own loneliness.

But the simplest tasks are by no means the easiest.

Faith is not a thing which one “loses,” we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Hell is not to love any more, madame. Not to love anymore!

“But it isn’t we who invented love. Love has its own order, its own laws.”

“Hell is not to love any more.