#where’s that GK Chesterton quote about God being big enough to say “do it again”

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I’ve heard people worry about heaven being boring because “singing holy holy holy forever sounds very dull” but I think that’s forgetting what it’s like to look at or experience something beautiful, so that you wish you could stay in that one thing forever, and you just repeat the same things about it over and over, to yourself, marveling, and it doesn’t get old because the more you look or experience it it’s a continual rediscovery all the ways that thing is good, and your only outlet for that is to repeat the same words and you rediscover it.

Like! Why do people fall to repeating I love you? Because that is a marvel! And what can you do but repeat it with each astonishing rediscovery! To say heaven is boring is to discount the perpetual surprisingness of God.

#(In tolkien’s Meaning of Surprisingness I mean #the same way fairy tales never get old but surprise with every telling #where’s that GK Chesterton quote about God being big enough to say “do it again” #)