Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.

We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

The bliss of the elect in heaven would not be perfect unless they were able to look across the abyss and enjoy the agonies of their brethren in eternal fire.

Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love. There are Death Agonies that are like the strainings of the Costive at stool.