The Good Death and a Good Life

A friend asked him – ‘On what are you resting your hopes?’ ‘Jesus Christ the crucified – the cross! The cross!’ Piety was, in his estimation, not a mere system of orthodox theological belief, nor a consciousness, more or less developed, of certain states of religious feeling and experience, but a real spiritual life … manifesting itself in every circumstance and relation in which humanity can be placed. ¹