{86} The Saint

Oct 29

“What genuinely puzzles people and occasions not a little envy is the saint’s evident freedom from the mad scramble, the snarls and tangles of ordinary existence. He appears to possess some kind of secret that lifts him from the battles for survival and status.

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“His life is not lived on the customary surface. His spirit, it seems, responds to a different and more distant music. The springs of his action and allegiance are not obvious, but hidden.

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“The saint is baffling to the majority of men in his astonishing power of concentration, in his intense detachment, in the courage with which he follows through his vision.” — Roger Hazelton; A Theological Approach to Art, p. 114-115