Just finished reading The Everlasting Man by Chesterton, really, really good. These lines sounded something strong in the soul --"In Christendom, hope has never been absent. Rather, it has been errant, extravagant, excessively fixed upon fugitive chances."
Not the flimsy, emasculated, impotent hope of modern platitudes. But the virile and tenacious hope that ennobled the martyrs and gave birth to saints. No other religion or philosophy has that, says that. I am so, so, so glad I am Catholic.
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It was so good having this to read today.
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