The faith that I love the best, says God, is hope.

- Charles Peguy

Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.

- Charles Peguy

Suffering passes; having suffered never passes.

- Charles Peguy

Freedom is a system based on courage.

- Charles Peguy

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

- Charles Peguy

What is most contrary to salvation is not sin but habit.

- Charles Peguy

We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.

- Charles Peguy

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

- Charles Peguy

The sinner is at the heart of Christianity. No one is as competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. No one, except a saint.

- Charles Peguy