6/9/13

"Our modern age is characterized by a sadness which calls for a new kind of prophet.

Not the prophets of old who reminded people that they were going to die, but someone who will remind them that they are not dead yet."

Do not be embarrassed.

Do not be afraid.

(This is a riff on the following passage from the 1912 novel Manalive by G. K. Chesterton.)

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