Bishop Myriel Quotes

The supreme happiness in life is the assurance of being loved; of being loved for oneself, even in spite of oneself.

Excess of suffering, as we have seen, had made him in some sort a visionary.

He sought to counsel and soothe the despairing by pointing to the resigned, and to transform the grief which sees only a pit into the grief with sees a star.

Progress must believe in God. The good cannot be served by impiety. An atheist is an evil leader of the human race.

There are men who dig for gold; he dug for compassion. Poverty was his goldmine; and the universality of suffering a reason for the universality of charity.