Young Winston, the Soldier

"After escaping from a prisoner of war camp during the Boer War in South Africa, Churchill quickly discovered that the fashionable atheism he had adopted before the war now failed him. Alone and in constant danger as he escaped through Boer territory, he turned to the faith of his youth and found himself singing the songs and saying the prayers his Christian nanny had taught him years before.
It was a permanent turning point in his life. In a matter of hours he renewed his grip on the faith of his fathers and never let go."
("The Faith of the American Soldier", Stephen Mansfield)

I found no comfort in any of the philosophical

ideas which some men parade in their hours

of ease and strength and safety. They seemed

only fair-weather friends. I realized with awful

force that no exercise of my own feeble wit and

strength could save me from my enemies, and

that without the assistance of that High Power

which interferes in the eternal sequence of causes

and effects more often then we always prone

to admit, I could never succeed. I prayed

long and earnestly for help and guidance.

My prayer, as it seems to me, was swiftly

and wonderfully answered.

("My Early Life", Winston Churchill)