Between Quote by Saint Ignatius

Then he heard a terrible cry that pulled at his insides, that expressed agony of a kind that neither flame nor curse could cause,…

— Anonymous

The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“He cared little for commonly experienced emotions, for everyday associations of ideas, now that the closing of his mind had grown more pronounced, and…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

Something ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In the way…

— R. Scott Bakker

“He was exasperated because he didn’t know what that look meant. He put it somewhere between indifference and despair. He didn’t know that in…

— Arundhati Roy

“He wondered why it was easier to believe in a malevolent spirit than in a benign one. Sometimes it seemed that the human heart,…

— Dean Koontz

“In the ferment of our civil societies, from which the guardian angels seem to depart, we see many every moment sliding at the brink.…

— Anonymous

“This recurred to his mind unceasingly. To this celestial kindness he opposed pride, which is the fortress of evil within us. He was indistinctly…

— Victor Hugo

“In all outward aspects he remained patient and mild now, not caring even to speak against heretics; he knew that he was likely to…

— Ackroyd Peter

Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was…

— Bible

He was himself a case in point, and perhaps not a rare one, for his spirit, it seemed, had been burned out of him…

— Charles Frazier

“(Life) it was a little bit nearer than God, but no less powerful and terrible. Yes, it was something, perhaps, that one did not…

— Arthur Holitscher