The Hesitation Cut

by Giles Blunt

“There is much that seems like love that is not love,” he began, “kindnesses that are not kindnesses. It is easy to be fooled, but we must always remember that these flights of fancy, these gusts of emotion, those things that seem most beautiful, those things that seem most real, often turn out to be the most dangerous illusions, the kingdom Satan offered to Christ.”

“It is difficult to judge the difference between illusion and reality in the behaviour of others; it is the work of a lifetime to learn the difference within ourselves.”