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I was at a table with scholars and theologians. The to and fro was arcane but lively. I said nothing until the topic turned to a practical consideration of what it might be like to live the ideal Christian life. I offered a rambling and imprecise paraphrase from G. K. Chesterton. I thought it germane but Wham! They were all over me, tut-tutting, correcting, parsing. I kept sinking lower in my chair until they moved on to some fine point of Greek. My pride was dented but I survived and now I want you to have the precise quote so that, when the occasion arises and you are in the company of academics discussing the ideal Christian life, you will have it as Chesterton wrote it:

“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”
—G. K. Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the World.

Go in peace to love and serve the Lord!
Josh