My religion teaches me that a promise once made or a vow once taken for a worthy object may not be broken.
The world cannot be successfully fooled for all time.
I may not unnerve myself while I can struggle against evil.
Man cannot breathe with borrowed lungs.
Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best in us, panders to our basest passions?
The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.