by Saint Francis
"This, Brother Leo, is what I understood: all lepers, cripples, sinners: if you kiss them on the mouth--"
He stopped, afraid to complete his thought.
"Enlighten me, Brother Francis, enlighten me; do not leave me in the dark."
Finally, after a long silence, he murmured with a shudder:
"All these, if you kiss them on the mouth -- O God, forgive me for saying this -- they all . . . become Christ."
--Kazantzakis, Saint Francis