“The humble Cumulus humilis - never hurt a soul.”

“You'll never get to a person's soul until you understand their hurts.”

“Humiliate the reason and distort the soul…”

“The nearer any soul draws to God, the more humble will that soul lie before God…the most holy men have always been the most humble men…If the work be good, though never so low, humility will put a hand to it; so will not pride.”

“shadows of night and reflections of light
shiver and quiver and churn,
for the searching of soul that never can hurt
is the fire that never can burn.”

“If the visitations the soul receives are from God, it first feels fear, then gladness accompanied by a hunger and thirst for virtue. If they are from the devil, the soul at first feels gladness and thereafter remains in confusion and darkness. Whether the visitations be from God or from the devil, we should always despise and humiliate ourselves; God is exceedingly glad to visit the humble, but the devil cannot stomach them.”

“The obedience of those, purified in soul and body in the furnace of humiliation, is of infinite worth to God.”

“Some hurts can never be mended" he said. "No matter how much time passes. They tattoo themselves on our souls”

“It was a strange thing, this feeling of empathy. He'd never experienced it before. He realized that what hurt this woman hurt him as well, that what made her bleed caused a hemorrhage of pain within his soul.”

“The sadistic person is as dependent on the submissive person as the latter is on the former; neither can live without the other. The difference is only that the sadistic person commands, exploits, hurts, humiliates, and that the masochistic person is commanded, exploited, hurt, humiliated. This is a considerable difference in a realistic sense; in a deeper emotional sense, the difference is not so great as that which they both have in common: fusion without integrity.”