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“Poverty and silence are the natural abode of truth.”

“He accepted an abiding sense of loneliness as a gift, as a wound the Lord permitted to remain open, exposed to the healing power of light.”

“And I tell you we are going to the cross. But it is not our right to hasten that day. We must work while the light lasts. We must strengthen what remains. This is the long and lonely martyrdom. It is the most difficult of all.”

“The loss of objectivity, not to mention professional detachment, pointed to a tragic blind spot. Many had simply presumed that they knew better than those who had gone before them. They had assumed that the advance of time confers a near-infallible superiority. This … was really a form of myth, the myth of the evolution of intelligence … ‘perhaps it is the demythologizers who need to be demythologized.’”

“I live here in this great city like a monachus, a solitary one. I pray. I work. I put good books into the hands of people. Perhaps good thoughts are born in their minds. That is my calling.”