“It is reasonable, even reassuring, that hard work and discipline should be needed for this: that it should demand of you, if not the renunciation of the cloister, at least the virtues of the golf course.”

Source: Practical Mysticism (1914), Chapter III, The Preparation Of The Mystic, p. 52

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