“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”
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Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.