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G.K. Chesterton

“Then, what," asked Turnbull, very slowly, as he softly picked a flower, "what is the difference between Christ and Satan?"

"It is quite simple," replied the Highlander. "Christ descended into hell; Satan fell into it."

"Does it make much odds?" asked the free-thinker.

"It makes all the odds," said the other. "One of them wanted to go up and went down; the other wanted to go down and went up. A god can be humble, a devil can only be humbled.”

G.K. Chesterton, The Ball and the Cross
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The Ball and the Cross (Dover Literature: Literary Fiction) The Ball and the Cross by G.K. Chesterton
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