Yet I think that I do not exaggerate when I say that the chief impression received by an observer is precisely the divine impassibility, the intransigence of the divine
demand, and the requirement from men of a
servile obedience rather than life in «the glorious liberty of the children of God».
an almost complete understanding of what it means to be completely
servile to the most creative
demands, no matter how extreme, of one's true master.