“‘DOGMAS make nations.’ — So says M. [Louis] de Bonald: such is one of the most profound remarks of this profound thinker. And if they make nations, they also make men.

“I shall never cease saying or thinking,” says another deep thinker, M. [Joseph] de Maistre, “that a man’s worth depends  upon his belief.” Man’s worth does, indeed, depend upon his ideas, and he is what he thinks. It is the weakening of truth that makes sanctity vanish from amongst mankind.

“Hence, my most urgent and primary necessity is to rectify my ideas as to myself, as to creatures, and as to the use I ought to make of them. As long as these remain uncorrected, nothing will be restored in me; as long as my efforts are not directly brought to bear upon this point, they will remain fruitless. It is faith that purifies the heart. Faith is the vision of the truth; truth is God’s glory seen in everything.”

— François de Sales Pollien, The Interior Life Simplified and Reduced to its Fundamental Principle, 1853-1936.

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