We have a dear friend who's getting on in years but is still at his job, still working long hours at the company he founded, still helping people sort through their problems to find workable solutions for them.
He's an agnostic, skeptic, wandering philosopher who was raised in an Italian Catholic home. He delights in tweeking Christian values and believes ethics to be more important that faith.
Naturally, our perspectives are often at odds. But this man has enormous compassion for people and his life has been one of service to others.
He's quite a perplexion. In the end, only God knows the heart.
Indeed, only God knows his heart.
On the passing of a similarly situated man, I extended a word of encouragement to his loved ones - namely, that doubting Thomas was an apostle, too. Don't worry about him, trust God.