Churchill and the Beguines

“What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? How else can we put ourselves in harmonious relation with the great verities and consolations of the infinite and the eternal? And I avow my faith that we are marching towards better days. Humanity will not be cast down. We are going on swinging bravely forward along the grand high road and already behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun.”

Winston Churchill

Go here to read the story.  Churchill believed in God, but that was the limit of his religion.  However, he had a sense of the eternal, and that painting captures that sense of the eternal in those nuns.

When he was planning his own funeral he decreed that only the great old traditional hymns he loved be used, no modernist glop for him.