The Fruits of Belief

Beschreibung

For man, therefore, who despite being affiliated with boundless hopes and desires has as capital only an insignificant faculty of will an total property, belief in the hereafter is an store of such strength and sufficiency, such a means of pleasure, and happiness, source of help, refuge, and means of consolation in the face of the endless sorrows of this world, and such a fruit and benefit that if the life of this world were to be sacrificed on the way of gaining it, it would still be cheap.