It is not for Providence to do violence to the natural order, to put a free man in moral chains, to exact from him the service of a slave in order to give him a reward that he does not wish for. Man knows the law, he knows the consequences of its violation, he has power to observe it if he will, he has power to revolt agains it and accept the results.
Meditations on Christian Dogma, Volume 1
The Newman Press, Westminster, Maryland, 1961
