irreverence Quotes

“The impious soul screams: I burn; I am ablaze; I know not what to cry or do; wretched me, I am devoured by all the ills that compass me about; alack, poor me, I neither see nor hear! This is the soul’s chastisement of itself. For the mind of the man imposes these on the soul.”

“She prayed in broken exclamations that did not always sound reverent, but never was a human soul more intense earnest.”