Because he is so helpless, a little child always turns toward his father. He is too weak and too little to have a will of his own or to want anything that his father does not want. How touching is this trust in his father. Have you ever seen that often repeated gesture of a young father pretending to toss his little child out over a cliff? And the child laughs and laughs because he knows well that no harm can ever come to him from his father.
Little Sister Magdeleine (1898–1989)