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Ida Friederike Görres était écrivaine allemande.

✵ 2. décembre 1901 – 15. mai 1971
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Ida Friederike Görres: Citations en anglais

“My solace and my blessing - unfathomably deep. It is my backbone.”

Ida Friederike Görres

Source: Broken Lights Diaries 1953-54. Psalm 118

“Léon Bloy, despite his many impressive qualities.. what a hater he was!”

Ida Friederike Görres

wild and implacable, and what power of abuse! Strange don't you think that Ernst Jünger should comment at length in his war-diaries how irresistibly Bloy reminded him of Hitler in his paroxysms of rage and his foul and ribald tongue?..Yet Bloy was undoubtedly a man with great gifts of vision and perception, and charity, too - even in the midst of his orgies of hatred. And much of what he writes about Our Lady of La Salette in his La Salette book is very fine and often goes straight to one's heart...
Broken Lights Letters 1951-59.

“St Thomas had lots to say about the mystical quality of createdness.”

Ida Friederike Görres

For him the creature is truly a mystery, a mystical reality. Sometimes this strikes me so forcibly that I shrink from crushing a gnat or plucking a blade of grass - how dare one do such a thing, except of necessity? Nothing sentimental about this - not even compassion at having to hurt things - simply awe before their Maker. I'd never dare to tear up someone else's sketch or manuscript without first asking the author's permission - unless, of course, he had asked me to do so.
Broken Lights Letters 1951-59.

“Life of Paul of the Cross, founder of the Passionists. Astonishing really that he should be so little known, should have left so little impression.. Strangely thrilling that St Paul - end of the eighteenth century!”

Ida Friederike Görres

should have prayed all his life for the conversion of England, pledging his sons to do likewise. Once, during Mass, he had a vision of my sons in England. But only in 1841, almost seventy years after his death, did they actually set foot on English soil - through Fr Dominic Barberi. It was he who received Newman into the Church..
Broken Lights Diaries 1957-59.

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