It does not matter primarily to Truth, one suspects, whether nations live or die. It matters primarily whether men and women attend to the whole business of their lives: loving God and their neighbors. The Power of Truth will not be let loose upon the earth until that business is attended to. If men and women are to take responsibility for their tormented world, if they are to seek salvation for all the persons who are oppressed and injured and starved and stunted by it, they will have, each one, to take the gamble that every person can only take alone: the gamble that there is God, that the Truth of God is in fact the Truth of life, not to be broken and never to be overcome, neither in this world nor in any other. At the root of all faith is a gamble against the world, a divine guess that there are hands of God ready to catch us if we throw ourselves into them.
