“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”
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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
