The Church, whose function is to proclaim the Kingdom, is preserved from the folly of compromise with the world, insofar as she heeds and cherishes the strange scandal of the solitary vocation.
“The Biblical Background to the Solitary Life”, Roland Walls, in Solitude and Communion: Papers on the Hermit Life
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