The Importance of Being Desperate

The Christian proverb is that man's extremity is God's opportunity. We're all headed straight for death as if we had been condemned by a judge, he says. And yet here we are all clinging on to things - and it doesn't do a thing for us. So you perform a discipline by experiment, by reductio ad absurdum of his premises. He knows again you see that stupid doesn't mean just straight stupid, but the higher stupidity of people who are humble and don't have intellectual pride.