The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

Satan is too hard a master. He would never command as did the Other with divine simplicity: 'Do likewise.' The devil will have no victims resemble him. He permits only a rough caricature, impotent, abject, which has to serve as food for eternal irony, the mordant irony of the depths.

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.