Even coal shimmers in the light
“Sometimes it takes great suffering to pierce the soul and open it up to greatness”
“It is the heart that has been pierced that feels the most.”
“True kindness ennobles the giver”
“Some journeys lead nowhere, but they set the spirit free”
“Pride is an expensive vice, for it is wedded to Greed whose hunger is never sated”
“Beneath Albrights office, the colliery sprawled across the hillside, red brick buildings scattered as though hurled from a great height, a hotchpotch of mismatched structures spattered on the valle...”
“Perhaps times definition of coal is the diamond.”
“Even coal shimmers in the light”
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
“Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce that it is not genteel comedy even that it flowers and fructifies on the contrary out of the profoundes...”
“Let us love. Let our lives be a perpetual song of love for God, first of all, and for all human beings who suffer, love, and mourn. Let deep joy live in us. Let us be like the lark, enemy of the ni...”