The human soul is Christian in its nature.  Christianity is always accepted by man as a reminiscence of something forgotten.  It raises him to a height from which he discovers a world of happiness, ruled by a natural law.  Man’s feelings on discovering the natural truth are those of a prisoner, one who has been confined in a dark tower and who, climbing to its highest balcony, discovers a marvelous world, until then unsuspected by him.

The idea of having to submit to man’s law is enslaving; the idea of submitting to God’s law sets one free.  (Daily Reading, January 28th)

One of the surest conditions of human action is the fact that the further away is the goal towards which we are struggling, and the less we desire to help ourselves to the fruit of our efforts, the more certain we are of our success.  (John Ruskin)

The most important and the most necessary work, as much for the authors as for others, is the one that is fully appreciated a long time after the death of the author.  (Daily Reading, May 28th)

“In order that men may be able to get rid of governments founded on violence, they must all be religious.  In other words, they must all be prepared to sacrifice their material good to God’s law and live, not for the future, but for the present, and live forcing themselves to accomplish the divine will, which is in love.  But the men of our time are not religious, and cannot, consequently, adopt this line of conduct.”

Those who say this suppose that to be religious is a state contrary to our nature, that it is manifested only in exceptional cases, and that it is the effect of education or suggestion.  In reality, it is the absence of faith, the only natural condition of life, that causes men today to believe that religion is not a natural need.

Just as work is not an artificial thing imposed on men, but something inevitable, without which men cannot live, so faith, the consciousness of man’s relation to the universe and its resulting rule of conduct, is an inevitable phenomenon.  This faith, far from being artificial, exceptional, or inculcated by education, is in human nature.  We cannot do without it any more than birds that have lost their wings can fly.  If in the Christian world today we see men who have lost their consciences, or rather, whose religious feeling has been obscured, this abnormal situation is temporary and has happened by chance or has been bred of special conditions in which men are living.  This state is as exceptional as that of men who live without working.

So in order to re-conquer this sentiment, which is natural and indispensable to life, it is necessary for men to dissipate the lies that obscure the sentiment within them.  In order for the chief obstacle to the supreme law of love to disappear at once, it will be sufficient to free men from the deception of the Christian doctrine as corrupted by the Church, which justifies a social organization founded on violence.  The law that tolerates no exception, and that was revealed to humanity nineteen centuries ago, is the only answer to the demands of modern conscience.

From the moment that this law penetrates the universal conscience as the supreme law of life, our dreadful moral condition, permitting the greatest iniquities and acts of barbarism to be considered natural, will disappear of itself.  Then will come to pass everything dreamed of and promised today by socialist and anarchist builders of future worlds.  The result obtained will be even greater.

And this end will be attained just because it will not be necessary to make use of the violent means that the transgressors extol today.  We will be free from the evil that is torturing and corrupting the whole world, not by preserving the present governments, monarchies, or republics, not by suppressing them and replacing them with socialist or communist organizations, and not, in general, by conceiving an organization and imposing it by force, but by having recourse to the only way: each one of us, without worrying about the result to ourselves or others, must in our own lives observe the supreme law of love, which condemns every violence.