Shaping and forming to reflect the ideal

There has never been the slightest doubt in my mind that the God who started this great work in you would keep at it and bring it to a flourishing finish on the very day Christ Jesus appears.
Philippians 1:6

No generation can bequeath to its successor what it has not got . . . if we are skeptical we shall teach only skepticism to our pupils, if fools only folly, if vulgar only vulgarity, if saints sanctity, if heroes heroism . . . nothing which is not in the teachers can flow from them into the pupils.
– C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), author