(Father Hildebrand tells me that I had seen it intellectually, but had never embraced it with my will.) Because when one once really sees that, there's no longer any puzzle about anything.

One can simply never say 'Why ?' again.

The thing's finished.
"Now this 'process' (as Father H.calls it) has gone on in a most extraordinary manner ever since.

That beginning near Ripon was like opening a door into another country, and I've been walking ever since and seeing new things.

All sorts of things that I had believed as a Catholic--things, I mean, which I assented to simply because the Church said so, have, so to speak, come up and turned themselves inside out.