6 quotes found
“There is only one misery . . . not to be saints.”
“The worst evil is not to commit crimes, but to fail to do the good one might have done.”
“The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.”
“Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have existence.”
“Every man who begets a free act projects his personality into the infinite. If he gives a poor man a penny grudgingly, that penny pierces the poor mans hand, falls, pierces the earth, bores holes i...”