The author challenges how much sanctity has to do with sameness, as he says saints are as different from each other as those in any group -- even murderers.
G.K. ChestertonTags: individuality sanctification
I can hardly conceive of any educated man believing in God at all without believing that God contains in Himself every perfection including eternal joy; and does not require the solar system to entertain Him like a circus.
G.K. ChestertonTags: god
To him, even the momentary was momentous.
G.K. ChestertonTags: living-in-the-present
If grass grows and withers, it can only mean that it is part of a greater thing, which is even more real; not that the grass is less real than it looks. St. Thomas (Aquinas) has a really logical right to say, in the words of the modern mystic, A. E.: "I begin by the grass to be bound again to the Lord.
G.K. ChestertonTags: cynicism mysticism sovereignty-of-god
We all disapprove of prostitution; but we do not all approve of purity. The only way to discuss the social evil is to get at once to the social ideal. We can all see the national madness; but what is national sanity?
G.K. ChestertonTags: insanity evil good social-problems national-troubles
Unfortunately he was one of those who always tend to take their own fancies seriously; and in whose otherwise legitimate extravagance there is too little of the juice of the jest.
G.K. ChestertonIndeed the Book of Job avowedly only answers mystery with mystery. Job is comforted with riddles; but he is comforted. Herein is indeed a type, in the sense of a prophecy, of things speaking with authority. For when he who doubts can only say, ‘I do not understand,’ it is true that he who knows can only reply or repeat ‘You do not understand.’ And under that rebuke there is always a sudden hope in the heart; and the sense of something that would be worth understanding.
G.K. ChestertonAnd in history I found that Christianity, so far from belonging to the Dark Ages, was the one path across the Dark Ages that was not dark.
G.K. ChestertonOur age is obviously the Nonsense Age; the wiser sort of nonsense being provided for the children and the sillier sort of nonsense for the grown-up people.
G.K. ChestertonIt is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.
G.K. ChestertonTags: truth skepticism postmodernism bias
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