“The world loves the Saint, and Christ loves the sinner.”
― De Profundis
― De Profundis
“Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return.”
― De Profundis
― De Profundis
“while to propose to be a better man is a piece of unscientific cant, to have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered. And such I think I have become.”
― De Profundis
― De Profundis
“Do you think that I would not have let you know that, if you suffered, I was suffering too: that if you wept there were tears in my eyes also: and that if you lay in the house of bondage and were despised of men, I out of my griefs had built a house in which to dwell until your coming, a treasury in which all that man had denied to you would be laid up for your healing, one hundredfold in increase?”
― De Profundis
― De Profundis
“I have got to make everything that has happened to me good for me”
― De Profundis
― De Profundis
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