The sinner is at the heart of Christianity. No one is as competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. No one, except a saint. - Charles Péguy

Tyranny is always better organised than freedom.

Work for them was joy itself and the deep root of their being. And the reason of their being. There was an incredible honor in work, the most beautiful of all the honors. … We have known this devotion to l’ouvrage bien faite, to the good job, carried and maintained to its most exacting claims. … Today, what remains of all this? How has … the only people that loved to work … been transformed into one which in the workyard takes the greatest pains not to lift a hand?

I am so resplendent in my creation.
That in order really not to see me these poor people would have to be blind.