Sad enough

     "This book has been written out of a deep sorrow at witnessing the emergence of false prophets within the City of God.  It is sad enough when people lose their faith and leave the Church.  But it is much worse when those who in reality have lost their faith remain within the Church and try—like termites—to undermine Christian faith with their claim that they are giving to Christian revelation the interpretation that suits 'modern man.'"

     Dietrich von Hildebrand, Trojan horse in the city of God (Chicago:  Franciscan Herald Press, 1967), Epilogue, p. 223.  Cf. C. S. Lewis.  From p. 265 of the editorially modified Sophia Institute Press edition of 1993:

This book has been written out of a deep sorrow at witnessing the emergence of false prophets within the City of God.  It is sad enough when people lose their faith and leave the Church; but it is much worse when those who in reality have lost their faith remain within the Church and try—like termites—to undermine Christian faith with their claim that they are giving to Christian revelation the interpretation that suits 'modern man.'

     I was put onto this passage by Kendall Harmon.