…. I bet my life on beauty, truth,

And love!  Not abstract, but incarnate truth;

Not beauty’s passing shadow, but its self,

Its very self made flesh – love realized.

I bet my life on Christ, Christ crucified.

Behold your God! My soul cries out. He hangs,

Serenely patient in his agony,

And turns the soul of darkness into light.

G.A .Studdert Kennedy (1883-1929), Faith, 1947.