“Honor is the presence of God in man.”
Source: The Lords of Discipline
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“In the presence of God himself man stands always like a solitary tree in the wilderness.”
Source: For The Sake of Heaven (1945), p. 95

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Book 4, “Hell’s Blue Burning Seas” Chapter 15 (p. 208)
The Storm Lord (1976)

“Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.”
For the people who know the Bible and Tradition and the complete history of humanity, Joy is the most infallible sign of the presence of God and that is why the Northern peoples, eaten up with sadness, come and visit the Latin countries.
Source: Though often attributed to Chardin, it is found in Letters to His Fiancée (1937), by Léon Bloy, p. 57.
“Hell […] is the absence of God and the presence of Time.”
Source: I, Lucifer