Charles Peguy

Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.

— Charles Peguy

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

— Charles Peguy

There will be things that I do that no one will be left to understand.

— Charles Peguy

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

— Charles Peguy

In my servant the ant, my tiny servant, who hoards greedily like a miser.Who works like one unhappy and who has no break and who has no rest.

— Charles Peguy

I am so resplendent in my creation.That in order really not to see me these poor people would have to be blind.

— Charles Peguy

Faith is a loyal Wife.Hope is a little girl, nothing at all.

— Charles Peguy

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

— Charles Peguy

Tyranny is always better organised 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

The life of the honest man must be an apostasy and a perpetual desertion. The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make himself continually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable renascent errors. And the man who wishes to remain faithful to justice must make himself continually unfaithful to inexhaustibly triumphant injustices.

— Charles Peguy

Towards this fine honor of a trade converged all the finest, all the most noble sentiments—dignity, pride. Never ask anything of anyone, they used to say. … In those days a workman did not know what it was to solicit. It is the bourgeoisie who, turning the workmen into bourgeois, have taught them to solicit.

— Charles Peguy

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

— Charles Peguy