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Where should our passions lie in this mixed up world of good and evil? We do tire at times of fighting and hating evil. Wouldn't it be nice to simply accept things as they are and strike a compromise between that which is bad and worse; preferring the bad over the worse, and live our life? On the other hand, we are to be content in our circumstances seeking godly contentment. How can all this be reconciled? I do appreciate G.K. Chesterton's thoughts.
"For our titanic purposes of faith and revolution, what we need is not the old acceptance of the world as a compromise, but some way in which we can heartily hate and heartily love it. We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment; we want a fiercer delight and fiercer discontent. We have to feel the universe at once as an ogre's castle, to be stormed, and yet as our own cottage, to which we can return at evening."
