"...salt flavors and preserves. G.K. Chesterton offers a lovely thought on our role as salt: Salt seasons and preserves beef, not because it is like beef; but because it is very unlike it. Christ did not tell his apostles that they were only the excellent people, or the only excellent people, but that they were the exceptional people; the permanently incongruous and incompatible people; and the text about the salt of the earth is really as sharp and shrewd and tart as the taste of salt."
James C. Howell, Servants, Misfits and Martyrs
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