This I know full well now, and did not know then, that the Catholic Church allows no image of any sort, material or immaterial, no dogmatic symbol, no rite, no sacrament, no saint, not even the blessed Virgin herself, to come between the soul and its creator. It is face to face, solus cum solo, in all matters between man and his God. He alone creates; He alone has redeemed; before His awful eye we go in death; in the vision of Him is our eternal beatitude.
John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua
John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua