You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect.
Source: Quoted in: H. W. Wardman, Ernest Renan: a Critical Biography, Saint Sulpice and the Hidden God (1964).
-- Ernest Renan, (Feb 28 1823-1892), French philosopher, historian, scholar; He was a leader of the school of critical philosophy in France.