Exterior and Interior

“Conversion of the body alone would be valueless: if conversion is just a formality and never attains truth, it remains ineffective and merely gives the appearance of religious devotion. Someone who is completely focused on external realities without knowing about his interior being is greatly to be pitied.

Thinking himself to be something, whereas he is nothing, he deceives himself. Yet even conversion of the body is not to be underestimated, because it provides appreciable support for spiritual conversion.”
~Charles Dumont