Christian Obedience, By Its Very Nature, Has

To Be Sure, The Response Of Faith To Revelation, Which God Grants To The Creature He Chooses And Moves With His Love, Occurs In Such A Way That It Is Truly The Creature That Provides The Response, With Its Own Nature And Its Natural Powers Of Love.

Not Longer Loved Or Fostered By Religion, Beauty Is Lifted From Its Face As A Mask, And Its Absence Exposes Features On That Face Which Threaten To Become Incomprehensible To Man.

Our Situation Today Shows That Beauty Demands For Itself At Least As Much Courage And Decision As Do Truth And Goodness, And She Will Not Allow Herself To Be Separated And Banned From Her Two Sisters Without Taking Them Along With Herself In An Act Of Mysterious Vengeance.

We No Longer Dare To Believe In Beauty And We Make Of It A Mere Appearance In Order The More Easily To Dispose Of It. Our Situation Today Shows That Beauty Demands For Itself At Least As Much Courage And Decision As Do Truth And Goodness, And She Will Not Allow Herself To Be Separated And Banned From Her Two Sisters Without Taking Them Along With Herself In An Act Of Mysterious Vengeance. We Can Be Sure That Whoever Sneers At Her Name As If She Were The Ornament Of A Bourgeois Past -- Whether He Admits It Or Not -- Can No Longer Pray And Soon Will No Longer Be Able To Love.

The Inner Reality Of Love Can Be Recognized Only By Love.