"The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it." — G.K. Chesterton
Faith fights the good fight because it is good. It does fight to win, but it doesn't refuse to fight if victory seems impossible. Because it fights upon principle, it makes its last stand on the Rock rather than compromise to live to not fight another day.
"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.” — G.K. Chesterton
Faith does not desire to die, but it is willing to die in order to live by faith. The rule of courage is that loss is possible, but unfaithfulness is not permissible. That is to say, come what may in Christ, but go not on without Him.
"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality." — C.S. Lewis
The testing is the point at which it costs something. Faith is willing to fight what looks like a losing battle in order to further the cause of that which should have won. In its sacrifice, life is honored.
There are few things more Christ-like than laying your life down in order to pick it up again.
Christianity is the story of dying in order to destroy the power of death and going faithfully into that good night in order to usher in the never ending day.
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