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Discipline before Freedom

Our habitual misuse of words has led us to imagine that Christian freedom consists in the moment, and we protest against anything that would put fetters upon this liberty. ... True spontaneousness is the fruit of discipline. It is the artist who has mastered the technique of his art most perfectly who can best respond to the vision and inspiration of the moment.

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