Whoever does not pray to God, prays to the devil. - Léon Bloy

My secret," he would say to me, "consists in loving with my whole soul, to the point of giving my life for them, the souls called to read me some day.

Suffering passes, but the fact of having suffered never passes.

Ah! The happy ones of this world who are assured their daily bread—that is, all the things necessary to bodily life—and who, not wishing to know Jesus, have never for one single instant had the idea of suffering for their brothers, of sacrificing themselves for the wretched: ah! indeed! such people are assuredly well qualified to judge me and to reproach me for not having what the world calls dignity!