“The world and its great history are full of darkness; society and our own little histories are full of darkness, and much of this Christianity has left unconquered and unexplained.
But at the heart and centre of all is not darkness, but light…and flowing from this is another principle…the light and not the darkness, are meant to conquer, in individuals, as in the whole.
Human character is not immutable, like the instincts of animals, but corrigible and perfectible; perfectible in the best to the end, corrigible in the worst to the end; capable of radical changes, capable of infinite growth.
Again, truth most obvious, if Christianity is true; yet one which in the apparent fixidness of character in all men after early youth, and the apparent invincibility of small faults in good men, in wrongs from others, in struggles with myself, which, I, at least have not found it easy to hold;indeed, I should have found it impossible to hold, but for constant recurrence to that first great truth which is its source. Faith in God, unbounded; and for that reason hope for men unbounded also.”
Elizabeth Rundle Charles, Against the Stream
“Earth will grow worse til men redeem it/ and wars more evil til all wars cease/But the old flags reel and the old drums rattle/as once in my life they throbbed and reeled/I have found my youth in the lost battle/ I have found my heart on the battlefield/ for we that fight til the world is free/we are not easy in victory/we have known each other too long my brother/And fought each other, the world and we.”
G.K. Chesterton, A Song of Defeat
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