Mary Hartwell Catherwood Quotes

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What we suffer for is enriched by our suffering until it becomes priceless.

Mary Hartwell Catherwood
Nature protects us in our uttermost losses by a density through which conviction is slow to penetrate.

Mary Hartwell Catherwood
To see men admitting that you are what you believe yourself to be, is one of the triumphs of existence.

Mary Hartwell Catherwood
Some of our sins are so honestly the expression of nature that justification breaks through them.

Mary Hartwell Catherwood
We cannot leave the expression of our lives to those better qualified than we are, however dear they may be.

Mary Hartwell Catherwood
One meets and wakes you to vivid life in an immortal hour. Thousands could not do it through eternity.

Mary Hartwell Catherwood
People incline to doubt the superiority of a person who will associate with them.

Mary Hartwell Catherwood
There are half hours that dilate to the importance of centuries.

Mary Hartwell Catherwood
There should be a colossal mother going about the world to turn men over her lap and give them the slipper. They pine for it.

Mary Hartwell Catherwood
The form of religion was always a trivial matter to me.... The pageantry of the Roman Church that first mothered and nurtured me touches me to this day. I love the Protestant prayers of the English Church. And I love the stern and knotty argument, the sermon with heads and sequences, of the New England Congregationalist. For this catholicity Catholics have upbraided me, churchmen rebuked me, and dissenters denied that I had any religion at all.

Mary Hartwell Catherwood
The stoicism that comes of endurance has something of death in it.

Mary Hartwell Catherwood