Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, b…

Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious. ✨ Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton, p.70, Simon and Schuster
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