And by this rough way of remorse they may come back to God.

Pope Leo XIII spoke of it as their best hope, an almost certain means of return.

The beautiful also may make its appeal to these natures on their best side, and save them preventively from themselves, but only if the time of study is prolonged enough for the laws of order and beauty to be made comprehensible to them, so that if they admire the best, remorse may have another hold and reproach them with a lowered ideal.
In opposition to these are the minds to which, as soon as they become able to think for themselves, all life is a puzzle, and on every side, wherever they turn, they are baffled by unanswerable questions.

These questions are often more insistent and more troublesome because they cannot be asked, they have not even taken shape in the mind.

But they haunt and perplex it.