Spiritual Quote of the Day (Reinhold Niebuhr, on the Gospel and ‘Heroic Devotion’)

“The gospel commits us to positions which require heroic devotion before they will ever be realized in life. But we are astute rather than heroic and cautious rather than courageous.” — American Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971), Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic (1929)