The question isn’t, “Will we grow weary in this battle,” but “will weariness cause us to quit?”

In The Lord of the Rings, when Sam Gamgee discovers that his friend Gandalf is not dead as he thought, he cries, “I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself! Is everything sad going to come untrue?”  Christ’s answer is YES, everything sad is going to come untrue. What will you lose if you quit? Dostoevsky said: I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidean mind of man, that in the world’s finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, of all the blood that they’ve shed; that it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened. [The Brothers Karamazon, Chapter 34.]   C.S. Lewis wrote: “They say of some temporal suffering, ‘No future bliss can make up for it,’ not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a Glory.” [The Great Divorce, Macmillian, 1946, p. 64.]       What will you gain if you press on?