seen dimly or in a glass darkly. Many of the truths Chesterton taught me (truths of both sorts) in my first couple of decades reading him were truths about the Catholic Church and faith to which I found myself drawn but thought at the time I could not possibly enter. As an example of the first kind of insight, there was Chesterton’s line from The Catholic Church and Conversion that “We do not really want a religion that is right where we are right. We want a religion that is right where we are wrong.”
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