Faithful to the Truth
In concluding this retreat:
- There can be no doubt, no compromise, in my decision to be completely faithful to God's will and truth, and hence I must seek always and in everthing to act for His will and in His truth, and thus to seek with His grace to be "a saint."
- There must be no doubt, no compormise in my efforts to avoid falsifying this work of truth by considering too much what others approve of and regard as "holy." In a word, it my happen (or may not) that what God demands of me may make me look less perfect to others, andectiot it may rob me of thier support, their affection, their respect. To become a saint therefore may mean the anguish of looking like, and in a real snese "being," a sinner, an outcast. It may mean apparent conflict with certain standards that may be wrongly understood by me or by others or by all of us.
- The thing is to cling to God's will and truth in th thigurity and try to be sincere and to act in all things out of genuine love, in so far as I can.
January 25, 1962,IV.198