But, listen now: whatever has happened--I'm not yet sure what it is--I no longer suffer.

Two things only I know: that our creed still has my godless, scoffing, unbaptised father in hell, and that my love for him--my absolute _oneness_ with him--has not lessened.
"I'll stop there, if you wish, leaving you to divine what other change has taken place." "There, there," soothed the old man, seizing the shoulders once more with his strong grip--"no more now, boy.

It was a hard thing, I know.

The consciousness of God's majesty comes often in that way, and often it overwhelms the unprepared.

It was hard, but it will leave you more a man; your soul and your faith will both survive.