Bishop Myriel Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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