But man would have known he was the son of God and therein lies your miracle. Hunger, thirst, poverty, jealousy - we'd never be able to pocket the devil once and for all, you may be sure. Of course they'd each have their own worries to grapple with, just the same. Well, lad, if only they'd let us have our way, the Church might have given men that supreme comfort. Present, past, future - his whole life is caught up in one look, and that look is a smile. He just leaves it all to his mother, you see. But that very sense of powerlessness is the mainspring of a child's joy. Childhood and old age should be the two greatest trials of mankind. Why does our earliest childhood always seem so soft and full of light? A kid's got plenty of troubles, like everybody else, and he's really so very helpless, quite unarmed against pain and illness. You'll be saying that isn't a very theological definition. The opposite of a Christian people is a people grown sad and old. Look: I'll define you a Christian people by the opposite. When a good workman's been at it for a whole week, surely he's due for a booze on Saturday night. On the contrary, she can look it in the face calmly and even take it upon herself, assume it at times, as Our Lord did. The Church has plenty of stamina, and isn't afraid of sin. “A Christian people doesn't mean a lot of goody-goodies.
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