with whom a man falls in love. The Christian is supposed to love God with all his heart, with all his soul, and with all his might. As the words suggest, to anyone who is even remotely honest, this is not a cold intellectual love; it is supposed to be a love of passionate intensity. So inevitably the Christian who loves God must also have the confidence to put his beliefs into practice.

How should a good man try to have this confidence? He should hazard his beliefs in the market place. The bad man has many advantages over the good; by and large society is on his side, if he can avoid committing crime. He is far more popular, or thinks he is. He has only one disadvantage; he lacks the good man's overflowing confidence in life, and ebullient optimism, without which life wears you down in the end, so that you dare not live. Youth dares to live; but youth does not last. In the end it is only an invincible optimism, like God's, that dares to live!