Slays Quotes

Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.

Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.