We all know of
Christians who say that they have never doubted. Their lives seem so
pale, so far off from the heroic adventure that is faith. The most
fruitful believers tell us ashamedly of the inner battles that have
torn them between doubt and faith. And the great Bible characters
from Abraham or Moses right through Jacob, Jeremiah, Peter, and Paul
all show us their conflict-filled lives, their revolts against
heaven, their refusals to adapt to a God who was too demanding of
them…They were real men!...they would not give in easily. Therefore
their surrender had nothing in it that resembled childish dependency.
Their very surrender was an act of manly courage. It brought them to
human fulfillment and opened up human history to new seasons of life.
-Paul Tournier, The Seasons of Life
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