“For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.”

The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.

Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.

All times are dangerous times.

Truth suffers, but never dies.

Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.

Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.

The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.

However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.

To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.

Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.

May God protect me from gloomy saints.

Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.

Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.

God is even kinder than you think.

Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.

Religions that teach pity, self-contempt, humility, self-restraint and guilt are incorrect.

It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.

We are all born sexual creatures, thank God, but it’s a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.

Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears.

Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read.

Do not pity the dead. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.