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“I would not have a god come in To shield me suddenly from sin, And set my house of life to rights; Nor angels…

— Sara Teasdale

“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go…

— Aldous Huxley

“I experienced by observing my own body and my own soul that I sorely needed sin, sorely needed concupiscence, needed greed, vanity, and the…

— Hermann Hesse

“Dark as is this hour, there is shining through the heavy overcast of fear and anger the solemn and wonderful image of the Son…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“You are in the grip of a desire for martyrdom and self-sacrifice; conquer this desire as well, set aside your pages and your intention--and…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“ I Am! I am—yet what I am none cares or knows; My friends forsake me like a memory lost: I am the self-consumer…

— John Clare

“Do you want to experience the lifestyle of a prophet? It begins with intimacy. Surrender to”

— James W. Goll

“If we enter into ourselves, find our true self, and then pass beyond the inner "I", we sail forth into the immense darkness in…

— Thomas Merton

“What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it; what cozening, hidden lord and master, and cruel, remorseless emperor commands me; that against…

— Herman Melville

“That night marks my life's dark center, the moment when growing up ended and the long downward slope toward death began. The wonder to…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“What man does not seek the power of his dreams, and believe in his ability to match the grace of his illusions.”

— Daniel J. Rice

“This is my sin for giving in to my own weaknesses. My heart just couldn't keep up with the gigantic gap between dreams and…

— Hiro Mashima