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G.K. Chesterton: It is Easy to be Heavy, Hard to be Light

G.K. Chesterton: It is Easy to be Heavy, Hard to be Light

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A Child was Born': G.K. Chesterton on the Mystery of the Nativity - ABC  Religion & Ethics

The swiftest things are the softest things.

A bird is active, because a bird is soft. A stone is helpless, because a stone is hard. The stone must by its own nature go downwards, because hardness is weakness. The bird can of its nature go upwards, because fragility is force.

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