To justify Christian morality because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion.

Human kind cannot bear much reality.

History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.

So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.

The old should be explorers, be curious, risk transgression, explore oldness itself.

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.