Typical of the badinage between Churchill and his private secretary is the exchange when Churchill asks Colville, immediately before Colville's departure for RAF service in 1941, his age. On being told, Churchill pointed out that, at 26, Napoleon was commanding the armies of Italy. Colville replied that the Younger Pitt was Prime Minister at the age of 24.- Wikipedia on Jock Colville

William Wilberforce: (Ioan Gruffudd)

Billy, no one of our age has ever taken power.

William Pitt: (Benedict Cumberbatch)

Which is why we're too young to realize that certain things are impossible. So we will do them anyway. -Dialogue from the film _Amazing Grace_ [2006], written by Steven Knight

In my sterile search for success, I have sometimes chosen to be effective rather than committed. I have chosen to be successful rather than merely being faithful. Sometimes my calendar is full, but my heart is empty. The Lord tries to fill my cup, but I poke a hole in it. Perforated trust. Am I afraid to trust Him completely? Am I afraid to love others without knowing whether or not I’ll be loved in return? I still don’t understand His kind of love—a love which expects nothing. I tend to calculate and define. Evaluate and measure. Make sure that everything is equal. I am an accountant rather than a disciple. It’s hard to give with a closed fist, or receive with a calculator in your hand. My feelings go up and down more than the Dow Jones charts. As Ian Thomas says, "God doesn’t ask us to be sensational—He simple asks us to be a miracle." A miracle is something that cannot be explained apart from Jesus Christ. He wants to borrow our humanity to communicate His truths to the world. He doesn’t give us His strength, He is our strength. - Tim Hansel

From the outside looking in, many people make the mistake of assuming Christianity is only a religion—a neo-pagan set of mystical traditions and rituals. This assumption is false from the founding members of the Christian faith to the theological leaders of today. Christianity has always been a complete worldview. Paul argued with Greek and Roman philosophers. Aquinas showed us how the Christian system of philosophy compares to that of Aristotle. When John Calvin wrote his Institutes of the Christian Religion in the sixteenth century AD, he wasn't knitting mythological yarns of fairies and nymphs; he was laying out a system of thought and practice—a worldview based on God's revelation from start to finish. Even many Christians view their faith as a collection of little truths—little nuggets to live by. This is not the Christianity of history nor the Bible. Christianity has always been presented as an all-encompassing system of life having cognitive, mystical, and behavioral aspects.- Matthew Griffin, MAY 14TH, 2008, Web Design Worldview