Just remember who you belong to, Hannah. I wouldn't want to have to shoot anyone - or strangle you. " She leaned over to kiss his shoulder. "Why am I the one to be strangled?" "It's a much more personal death.
Beware of being obsessed with consistency to your own convictions instead of being devoted to God. The important consistency in a saint is not to a principle but to the divine life. It is easier to be an excessive fanatic than it is to be consistently faithful, because God causes an amazing humbling of our religious conceit when we are faithful to Him.