- Robert the Bruce: Lands, titles, men, power... nothing.
- Robert's Father: Nothing?
- Robert the Bruce: I have nothing. Men fight for me because if they do not, I throw them off my land and I starve their wives and children. Those men who bled the ground red at Falkirk fought for William Wallace. He fights for something I never had. And I took it from him, when I betrayed him. I saw it in his face on the battlefield and its tearing me apart.
- Robert's Father: All men betray. All lose heart.
- Robert the Bruce: I don't want to lose heart. I want to believe as he does.

I am hardly what you would call a "super-christian". I've gone through periods of disillusionment, at best... and periods of abandonment, at worst. And I have definately lost heart, at times. Sometimes, it takes the example of other people for me to actually see and acknowledge this. I know we are not supposed to measure ourselves by other people but, rather, we can take encouragement and self-examination from their examples. I find myself thinking, "How did he/she face that? How did they make it through?" and things of that nature. Now, the same spirit of God that was in them is also in me... but it also seems that there is "something I never had". Perhaps part of the answer lies here:

"If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this." C. S. Lewis