“Sweetness and consolation are what we persistently desire, but it is the bitter taste of dryness that is profitable. St. Peter would gladly have dwelt upon Mt. Tabor, though he fled from Calvary, but was not the greater work for us done upon the latter? And did not the bloodshed there do more for us than the bright shining light of the former?”
St. Francis frequently said: “It is far better to eat bread without sugar than sugar without bread.”
(Camus, 153-54)