The unbeliever

Your doctrine is beautiful and holy; its first landmark is planted, and solidly planted. Now you have only to march. The path that is opened to you is great and majestic. Blessed is the one who reaches the harbor. The more proselytes he will have made, the more will be counted to him. But for this he must not embrace the doctrine coldly; it is necessary to have ardor, and this ardor will be doubled, inasmuch as God is always with you when you do good. All those you will bring will be so many sheep brought into the fold. Poor sheep, half gone astray! Believe: the most skeptical, the most atheistic, the most unbelieving, in short, always has a little corner in the heart that he would like to conceal from himself. Well then! It is that corner that he must seek and find, it is that vulnerable side that he must attack. It is a little breach, left open intentionally by God, to facilitate for the creature the means of returning to His bosom. Saint Benedict. n [1]

[v. Saint Benedict.]