The worst error is to imagine that a Christian must try to be “sane” like everybody else, that we belong in our kind of society.
~Thomas Merton, Raids on the Unspeakable (via the post “The Real Christian” on the blog A Capuchin Journey.
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To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law — a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security.
~Walter M. Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz
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