| Your wretchedness is not an obstacle but a spur for you to become more united to God and seek him constantly, because He purifies us. |
| And again it is our wretchedness that impedes us now from contemplating Our Lord, and makes his figure appear dark and distorted. |
| In fact, they mattered more than her wretchedness, even more than my loved, lost and delinquent father who had put us in this situation. |
| We can be that sign, despite our own wretchedness, if with faith and trembling we let Christ live in us. |
| But, he failed to mention that, with that knowledge comes misery and wretchedness, pain and suffering. |
| Wilfrid worked through all the intervolutions, and nearly forgot his wretchedness in admiration of his sister's mental endowments. |
