Secondly, and in a few words, this sustains Life. It was a triumph for religion, some thought, that the keenest intellects of the nineteenth century should be stirred with themes like this. Yet we can understand the question. On any other definition we can understand it. On any other definition life is very far from being worth living.
Life is either a discipline, or a most horrid cruelty.
There is nothing to sustain life but this thought. And it does sustain life. Take even an extreme case, and you will see how. Take the darkest, saddest, most pathetic life of the world's history. That was Jesus Christ's.