If one's intellectual equipment was not great, one's spiritual experience not deep, the result of doing one's very best could only seem very lightweight in comparison with the effort involved. But perhaps that was not important. The mysterious power that commanded men appeared to him to ask of them only obedience and the maximum of effort and to remain curiously indifferent as to the results.
Elizabeth GoudgeAbout author
- Author's profession: Writer
- Nationality: english
- Born: April 24, 1900
- Died: April 1, 1984
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