Reviving Hope In A Dispirited Generation

"Tell people only what they must do, and you will numb them into despair; you will turn the gospel into a shabby replica of the world's irreligious and nagging moralism, with its oceanfuls of good advice. But tell them what they are, of their dignity as made in the image of God, and that their sins are wicked perversions of their nature; . . . tell them that the world with all its horrors is still God's world, though its true order is upside down; tell them that they can do all things through Christ, because in him all the powers of their nature are directed to fruition . . . and you will help to revive hope in this dispirited generation."

St. Paul's, Canon V.A. Demant in his book Christian Polity