Worldly men on first coming into the spiritual life often misjudge
the values and dimensions of Christian realities. Only long Christian
experience enables men to get the right perspective of Christian
realities.
If you have always lived in valleys or near the sea level, then
you have always been viewing distant objects through a dusty or
vaporous atmosphere. If you should go to a mountainous region
or an elevated plateau, you would suffer great illusion as to
distances. As you would still have the mental standards of the
lowlands, very distant objects would seem to be quite near.
You would travel all day to reach a mountain that seems but an
hour’s walk away.
(1509)