Real Risk
“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box.
But suppose you had to hang by the rope over a precipice. Wouldn’t you then first discover how much you really trusted it? The same with people… Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief.”
- C.S. Lewis: A Grief Observed
