"Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterwards."

 "Le vérité, elle délivre d’abord, elle console après."

The truth, it delivers first, it consoles afterwards.

      Le Curé de Torcy, in Georges Bernanos, The diary of a country priest 2, trans. Pamela Morris (New York:  Macmillan, 1937), 54.  French from p. 66 of the 1936 original.