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The Best Things At Their Worst, and God Setting It Right (Chesterton)

G.K Chesterton:

In the story of Good Friday it is the best things in the world that are at their worst. That is what really shows us the world at its worst. It was, for instance, the priests of a true monotheism and the soldiers of an international civilisation…

Since that day it has never been quite enough to say that God is in his heaven and all is right with the world; since the rumour that God had left his heavens to set it right.

The Everlasting Man, pp. 210-211

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