Chapter 91241–242

the Churches and the narrowness of creeds. God uses it as a stone to smash these soiled card-houses.

242 – How much hatred and stupidity men succeed in packing up decorously and labelling “Religion”!

Which is better: religion or atheism?

So long as religions exist, atheism will be indispensable to counter-balance them. Both must disappear to make way for a sincere and disinterested search for Truth and a total consecration to the object of this search.

21 December 1969 243 – God guides best when He tempts worst, loves entirely when He punishes cruelly, helps perfectly when violently He opposes.

244 – If God did not take upon Himself the burden of tempting men, the world would very soon go to perdition.

245 – Suffer yourself to be tempted within so that you may exhaust in the struggle your downward propensities.

246 – If you leave it to God to purify, He will exhaust the evil in you subjectively; but if you insist on guiding yourself, you will fall into much outward sin and suffering.

247 – Call not everything evil which men call evil, but only that reject which God has rejected; call not everything good which men call good, but accept only what God has accepted.