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

- 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

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

- Leon Bloy

Suffering passes, but the fact of having suffered never passes.

- 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 dep…

- Leon Bloy

Any Christian who is not a hero is a pig.

- Leon Bloy

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

- 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