Feeling like the voice she liked best in all the world was calling her name.

I never heard weeping like that before or after; not from a child, nor a man wounded in the palm, nor a tortured man, nor a girl dragged off to slavery from a taken city. If you heard the woman you most hate in the world weep so, you would go to comfort her. You would fight your way through fire and spears to reach her. And I knew who wept, and what had been done to her, and who had done it.

Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.

There is someone I accept even though I do not approve of all he does...and that someone is me

We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the beast or child.

All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary

In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.