The lost enjoy forever the horrible freedom they have demanded.
The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus.
Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."
All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary
Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.
The very lack of evidence is thus treated as evidence; the absence of smoke proves that the fire is very carefully hidden...A belief in invisible cats cannot be logically disproved although it does tell us a good deal about those who hold it.