We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious. Sophie Swetchine More Quotes by Sophie Swetchine More Quotes From Sophie Swetchine If it were ever allowable to forget what is due to superiority of rank, it would be when the privileged themselves remember it. Sophie Swetchine pridewould-beremember The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume. Sophie Swetchine healthrootsmen I like people to be saints; but I want them to be first and superlatively honest men. Sophie Swetchine honestymenpeople If we look closely at this earth, where God seems so utterly forgotten, we shall find that it is He, after all, who commands the most fidelity and the most love. Sophie Swetchine earthgodlooks It is a little stream, which flows softly, but freshens everything along its course. Sophie Swetchine moderationflowlittles Piety softens all that courage bears. Sophie Swetchine pietybears When we see the shameful fortunes amassed in all quarters of the globe, are we not impelled to exclaim that Judas' thirty pieces of silver have fructified across the centuries? Sophie Swetchine silverrichespieces America has begun her career at the culminating point of life, as Adam did at the age of thirty. Sophie Swetchine careersageamerica We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us. Sophie Swetchine judgingcharactermen There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: "I shall suffer," and "I shall die. Sophie Swetchine destinypridemen My sole defense against the natural horror which death inspires is to love beyond it. Sophie Swetchine love-isinspiredeath God Himself allows certain faults; and often we say, "I have deserved to err; I have deserved to be ignorant. Sophie Swetchine ignorantfaultscertain Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others. Sophie Swetchine insufferableencountersfaults Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others. Sophie Swetchine insufferableencountersfaults He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him. Sophie Swetchine superiorityfriendsenjoy Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum. Sophie Swetchine asylumsunhappyfriendship I can understand the things that afflict mankind, but I often marvel at God those which console. An atom may wound, but God alone can heal. Sophie Swetchine atomsgodmay Where there is a question of economy, I prefer privation. Sophie Swetchine economy The injustice of men subserves the justice of God, and often His mercy. Sophie Swetchine justice-of-godinjusticemen Men are always invoking justice; yet it is justice which should make them tremble. Sophie Swetchine shouldjusticemen
