"When a man says, I believe in Christ, he really says, and means to say, I believe in the beauty of goodness, in the desirableness of purity, in the right of righteousness to be ultimately triumphant. He declares that Christ is his ideal of perfection, that to that ideal he is, in thought at least, loyal and true, and that he longs for the time to come when the actions of his life will be conformable to the thought of his soul.
It is the sight of an ideal whose outward manifestation is not yet seen, the conviction of a truth whose proof lies beyond the eye and ear, the assurance of a result whose accomplishment seems belied by the actual facts of life." George Matheson.
I think the last paragraph defines Hebrews 11:1.
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