When loving with human love one may pass from love to hatred, but divine love cannot change.

There are no conditions of life to which a man cannot accustom himself, especially if he sees that every one around him lives in the same way.

It occurred to him that his scarcely perceptible attempts to struggle against what was considered good by the most highly placed people, those scarcely noticeable impulses which he had immediately suppressed, might have been the real thing, and all the rest false.

My chief sin is doubt. I doubt everything and am in doubt nearly all the time.''Doubt is natural to human weakness,' repeated the priest.