Story
A student once taught a speech class the law of the pendulum: a pendulum can never return to a point higher than the point from…
Faith
Quote
Hanging by the Rope
C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
C.S. Lewis wrote: “You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn’t you then first discover how much you really trusted it?” The observation is simple and searching. Much of what we call belief has never been asked to bear real weight.
How you’d preach it
Excellent for distinguishing casual belief from the kind that is tested by real weight. Short enough to land cleanly.
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