ON SIN

"Thought how maddening it is that the worst sins are the most enjoyable. I wondered could it possibly be that these sins would recoil upon me in my old age. For at present they don't seem to do my soul much harm. And the lusts of the flesh, instead of alienating me from God, seem to draw me closer to him in a perverse way. He on the other hand may not be drawn to me. Yet I feel He ought to know how to shake me off if He wants to. Can't be that he is too polite."

J L-M. Diary 10 December 1943

THOUGHTS

I do not necessarily endorse every view and opinion which I held in the past, especially the foolish ones.


I have reached a phase in life where I am neither happy nor unhappy. Later I am almost bound to turn to God.



If a man has no constant lover who shares his soul as well as his body he must have a diary - a poor substitute, but better than nothing.


Every man is damned by his own sins in this life at any rate, if not in the next.


My ill-humour is all-besetting.


                                                    To Nurture Whimsy is the highest virtue.