The Heroic Face of Innocence Quotes

“But we venture to suggest that anyone with a thirst for truth would do well to listen to his voice, at once so tender and so forceful, anyone in particular with a thirst for qualities like fortitude, fidelity, innocence, and ardent charity - virtues so patronizingly dismissed nowadays as quaint but obsolete. Bernanos replies that when such virtues disappear, the child within us dies and our culture turns inevitably into a civilization of robots without a memory and of old men whose only passions are the calculations of the mind.”
― Georges Bernanos, The Heroic Face of Innocence: Three Stories by Georges Bernanos