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dependants; still he ever hopes and ever works to attain this.
Whereas the Carthusian monk makes a vow to be always dependent. So they do
not differ in their perpetual thraldom, in which both of them always exist,
but in the hope, which one always has, and the other never.

540. The hope which Christians have of possessing an infinite good is
mingled with real enjoyment as well as with fear; for it is not as with
those who should hope for a kingdom, of which they, being subjects, would
have nothing; but they hope for holiness, for freedom from injustice, and
they have something of this.

541. None is so happy as a true Christian, nor so reasonable, virtuous, or
amiable.

542. The Christian religion alone makes man altogether lovable and happy. In
honesty, we cannot perhaps be altogether lovable and happy.

543. Preface.--The metaphysical proofs of God are so remote from the
reasoning of men, and so complicated, that they make little impression; and
if they should be of service to some, it would be only during the moment
that they see such demonstration; but an hour afterwards they fear they have
been mistaken.

Quod curiositat