
Origine: It would be very wicked for any man to say that he had completely achieved mastery of his fleshly appetites, but I felt able to declare myself a Christian when I was reasonably sure that a scrutiny of my life would not disgrace the inconceivably high standards that Christians I admire — like Tolstoy and Pascal — have set. (da Jesus Rediscovered, Doubleday, 1979, p. 189)