A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
The faith that I love the best, says God, is hope. - Charles Peguy
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
Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.
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
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.
Freedom is a system based on courage. - Charles Peguy
Freedom is a system based on courage.
What is most contrary to salvation is not sin but habit. - Charles Peguy
What is most contrary to salvation is not sin but habit.
We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see. - Charles Peguy
We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.
Suffering passes; having suffered never passes. - Charles Peguy
Suffering passes; having suffered never passes.
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers. - Charles Peguy
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom. - Charles Peguy
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.
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