It is when we stand in the righteous all-seeing light of love that we can dare to look at, admit, and consciously suffer under this something in us which wills disaster, misfortune, defeat to everything outside the sphere of our narrowest precondition for the self-knowledge which enables us to follow a straight path, and so be victorious over ourselves, forgiven by ourselves. —Father Benedict J. Groeschel in ‘The Courage to be Chaste’ quoting Dag Hammarskjold from his dairy titled ‘Markings’, the struggles of a young man to live a life of celibacy.
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