Romain Rolland's Quotes

One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

A hero is a man who does what he can.

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.

I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.

For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.

Thy love is singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ and in no other thing finds joy and comfort.

It behoves thee to love God wisely; and that may thou not do but if thou be wise.

The commandment of God is, that we love Our Lord in all our heart, in all our soul, in all our thought.

The first is called insuperable, the second inseparable, the third singular.

Who breathe where you will, come into me and snatch me up to yourself.