In the novel The Power and the Glory Graham Greene talks how when we stand for what we believe we must go out and do something about it. When the priest leaves the town to go he hears that there was the Yankee that was dying and wanted a priest. The priest thought about this but he knew that he wouldn’t be called a priest if he didn’t help this man.
In life religion is a way of knowing and thinking what you think is right. When you have something in which you believe you are usually too scared to say anything about it. But when you stand up for what you believe in at least you know you did something with your life instead of going with the crowd. God sent Jesus down from heaven so that he could die from our sins. He stood for something he believed in to help us believe in him.
In the novel the priest gets betrayed, has his last supper and is killed for something he believes in. All this relates to the passion of when Jesus was betrayed and he was killed because he believed in something. Life gives us many reasons to forget what we believe, for example a law is set up saying that people cannot read the Bible yet people still do it because they want to believe more and stand up against those that try to stop them to make them go with what they want them to believe.
" It is the voice of Life that calls us to come, and learn." When you take a look at life you realize that the true meaning in life is to do something with the time that you have. When we don’t stand for something we guarantee ourselves a spot in Dante’s Inferno as one of those who has their heads sticking out of the ground. They didn’t stand for anything but they didn’t do anything bad they just tried to get through life without the pain that comes when belief comes into your life. When the priest is praying for all the peoples sins he realizes that his job and life were more important to everyone than to himself. He would have to stay and help people not because he wanted to or he had to but because it was what he believed in and knew.
This novel has the meanings of life that talk how we trust and do what we are to believe in. Though we are innocent now we must realize that life will toss and turn us with difficulties and surprises that are both good and bad. We have leaders who lead like the president, teachers and parents which helps us in our decisions in life to help better understand what we are going to face. To believe in something is to trust and know what you think is right. The priest was just a poor man but he made a difference in those people’s lives he saved. He was helping them so that when they believe they will know that believing is knowing the truth to Life.