You never know how much you really believe anything...

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 a rope over the precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?...Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief. ...CS Lewis image