More on Sanctity

“...homage to sanctity is an unconscious avowal of our hearts, which are made, not for the half-hearted faith of an anaemic religion, but for a total, absolute self-surrender, an all-sacrificing love of God. Desire for perfection is instinctive in human souls. It is found in the hearts of those in whom hatred of suffering attempts to stifle that craving. The great obstacle to the extension of the reign of Christ is the want of energy among innumerable semi-Christians who, by their emasculated form of religion, give an incomplete idea of the religion of Christ. Christianity in all its beauty, its splendor, its sacrifices, is the only religion that conquers. We must judge it by its fruits, by the lives of those who conform to its Gospel. Many would be saved, when on the verge of apostasy, if they judged thus.”
~Henri-Paul Bergeron