June 11
Companions of the Way (Morning)All the contradictions which seemed to have taken me further from the knowledge of religion, are what most rapidly led me into truth.
IN a grown man the direct and negative simplicity of a child is childishness; yet though he may not and cannot become a child, to become in some measure childlike, to make himself reflexly and positively what he was when Nature first gave him into his own hands, is the scope of all rightly directed moral endeavour. Normally, his first exercise of liberty is to shatter this simplicity to atoms; to go as far as may be from his infancy, to break up and explore the infinite possibilities of his nature; his subsequent task is to return homeward, to reconstruct freely, consciously, appreciatively what he has shattered; to consent understandingly to God's designs in his regard. This is the law of all moral and spiritual life.
FATHER TYRRELL