Why is he found wanting?
If human weakness were pleaded, one could understand.
It is against the making a virtue of it lies the protest.

How many noble things there are in our philosophies, and how little practised.

No violent convulsions should be needed to make us free, if men were but consistent: we should find ourselves wakening from a wicked dream in a bloodless and beautiful revolution.

We are in the desert truly and a long way from the Promised Land.

But we must get to the higher ground and consider our position; and if one by one we are stripped of the prejudices that too long have usurped the place of faith, and we find ourselves, to our dismay, perhaps lacking that faith that we have so long shouted but so little testified, and tremble on the verge of panic, there is one last line that gives in four words with divine simplicity and completeness a final answer to all timidity and objections: "Fear not; only believe.".