Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known.
Dag HammarskjoldFor the sacrificed, in the hour of sacrifice, only one thing counts: faith-alone among enemies and skeptics. Faith, in spite of the humiliation which is both the necessary precondition and the consequence of faith, faith without any hope of compensation other than he can find in a faith which reality seems so thoroughly to refute.
Dag Hammarskjold