Showing posts with label Chesterton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chesterton. Show all posts
Sunday, June 12, 2016

Excerpts from Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton, 74

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The mass of men have been forced to be gay about the little things, but sad about the big ones. Nevertheless (I offer my last dogma de...
Sunday, June 05, 2016

Excerpts from Orthodoxy, by G. K. Chesterton, 73

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But this larger and more adventurous Christian universe has one final mark difficult to express; yet as a conclusion of the whole matt...
Sunday, May 29, 2016

Excerpts from Orthodoxy, by G. K. Chesterton, 72

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The unpopular parts of Christianity turn out when examined to be the very props of the people. The outer ring of Christianity is ...
Sunday, May 22, 2016

Excerpts from Orthodoxy, by G. K. Chesterton, 71

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All other philosophies say the things that plainly seem to be true; only this philosophy has again and again said the thing that does ...
Sunday, May 15, 2016

Excerpts from Orthodoxy, by G. K. Chesterton, 70

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Now, when society is in a rather futile fuss about the subjection of women, will no one say how much every man owes to the tyrann...
Sunday, May 08, 2016

Excerpts from Orthodoxy, by G. K. Chesterton, 69

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Note: This post doesn't have anything to do with Mother's Day, at least not on purpose. Sorry. If a shade arose from the under wor...
Sunday, May 01, 2016

Excerpts from Orthodoxy, by G. K. Chesterton, 68

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The sceptic always takes one of the two positions; either an ordinary man need not be believed, or an extraordinary event must not be ...
Sunday, April 24, 2016

Excerpts from Orthodoxy, by G. K. Chesterton, 67

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Suppose we were investigating whether angry men really saw a red mist before their eyes. Suppose sixty excellent householders sw...
Sunday, April 17, 2016

Excerpts from Orthodoxy, by G. K. Chesterton, 66

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But among these million facts all flowing one way there is, of course, one question sufficiently solid and separate to be treated brie...
Sunday, March 20, 2016

Excerpts from Orthodoxy, by G. K. Chesterton, 65

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I take in order the next instance offered: the idea that Christianity belongs to the Dark Ages. Here I did not satisfy myself with rea...
Sunday, March 13, 2016

Excerpts from Orthodoxy, by G. K. Chesterton, 64

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I have given an imaginary triad of such ordinary anti-Christian arguments; if that be too narrow a basis I will give on the spur of th...
Sunday, March 06, 2016

Excerpts from Orthodoxy, by G. K. Chesterton, 63

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If I am asked, as a purely intellectual question, why I believe in Christianity, I can only answer, “For the same reason that an i...
Sunday, February 28, 2016

Excerpts from Orthodoxy, by G. K. Chesterton, 62

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And now we come to the crucial question which truly concludes the whole matter. A reasonable agnostic, if he has happened to agree wit...
Sunday, February 21, 2016

Excerpts from Orthodoxy, by G. K. Chesterton, 61

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If we wish to pull down the prosperous oppressor we cannot do it with the new doctrine of human perfectibility; we can do it with...
Sunday, February 14, 2016

Excerpts from Orthodoxy, by G. K. Chesterton, 60

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These can be called the essentials of the old orthodoxy, of which the chief merit is that it is the natural fountain of revolution and...
Sunday, February 07, 2016

Excerpts from Orthodoxy, by G. K. Chesterton, 59

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"Christianity is the only religion on earth that has felt that omnipotence made God incomplete." Here again we reach the same s...
Sunday, January 31, 2016

Excerpts from Orthodoxy, by G. K. Chesterton, 58

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All Christianity concentrates on the man at the crossroads. The vast and shallow philosophies, the huge syntheses of humbug, all talk ...
Sunday, January 24, 2016

Excerpts from Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton, 57

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Again, the same is true of that difficult matter of the danger of the soul, which has unsettled so many just minds. To hope for all so...
Sunday, January 17, 2016

Excerpts from Orthodoxy, by G. K. Chesterton, 56

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Unitarians (a sect never to be mentioned without a special respect for their distinguished intellectual dignity and high intellectual ...
Sunday, January 10, 2016

Excerpts from Orthodoxy, by G. K. Chesterton, 55

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I want to love my neighbour not because he is I, but precisely because he is not I. I want to adore the world, not as one likes ...