Bernanos

It's George Bernanos' birthday today. Here are a few links to the excellent fiction writer. General Bio Link. Crisis Link. Welborn on Diary of a Country Priest. Wikipedia Bio.

A few Bernanos quotes:

“The Church is on the march through time as a regiment marches through strange country, cut off from all its ordinary supplies.”

“Christians should be the salt, not the syrup, of the earth.”

"Faith is not a thing that one 'loses,' we merely cease to shape our lives by it."

"The sin against hope--the deadlist sin and perhaps also the most cherished, the most indulged. It takes a long to become aware of it, and the sadness that precedes it and heralds its advent is so delicious! The richest of all the devil's elixirs, his ambrosia."

"[I]f the deal had come off, Judas would probably have endowed sanatoriums, hospitals, public libraries or laboratories."