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“Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.”

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Gilbert K. Chesterton was an English writer, critic, and theologian, born on May 29, 1874, and died on June 14, 1936. Known for his unique literary style and profound philosophical thinking, Chesterton's works spanned a variety of genres, including novels, poetry, drama, and criticism. more

“Christ subjected himself to the law of the seed in the earth, to the law of rest and growth. He was "one of the children of the year," growing through rest, secret in his mothers womb, receiving the warmth of the sun through her, living the life of dependence, helplessness, littleness, darkness, and silence which, by a mystery of the Eternal Law, is the life of natural growth.”

Source: A Child in Winter: Advent, Christmas and Epiphany with Caryll Houselander

“We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society.”

Persons Inspiration Faith Militarism Breaking Silence Profit Motive

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.”

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Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today, in very different forms in the materially rich as well as the poor countries. The inability of joy presupposes and produces the inability to love, produces jealousy, avarice - all defects that devastate the life of individuals and of the world. This is why we are in need of a new evangelization - if the art of living remains an unknown, nothing else works... this art can only be communicated by [one] who has life - he who is the Gospel personified.”

Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

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