“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed”
- G. K. Chesterton
Posts Tagged ‘Chesterton’
There be dragons
11
Jul
Happy Birthday G.K. Chesterton!
29
May
“A room without books is like a body without a soul”
- G. K. Chesterton
Celebratory drinks at Theology On Tap tonight!
Fallacy and Fashion
22
May
It’s now exactly a week until G.K. Chesterton’s birthday…
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
- G. K. Chesterton
Why I love Chesterton more and more…
14
Apr
When given the gift of loneliness, which is the gift of liberty, [those who do not appreciate the freedom of having nothing to do] will cast it away; they will destroy it deliberately with some dreadful game with cards or a little ball… I cannot repress a shudder when I see them throwing away their hard-won holidays by doing something. For my own part, I never can get enough Nothing to do - G. K Chesterton
Thanks to Transformed In Christ for the quotation!
The excuses we make
13
May
I’m starting to fall significantly behind with my blog. I have a large number of posts in draft, but very few have recently been published.
Anything Worth Doing…
G. K. Chesterton said “Anything worth doing, is worth doing badly”. I think the point he was trying to make is that if something is important, it’s worth giving it a go, rather than endlessly procrastinating. There is a temptation to leave a task until some undefined, almost mythical, point in the future when you finally feel qualified to attempt it. “Perfect is the enemy of good” might be another way of expressing the same sort of idea. Given my personality, there’s a real danger that all the entries currently sitting in my “drafts” folder will remain there, forever to be tweaked and tinkered but forever found unsatisfactory and remaining unpublished.
I’ve therefore resolved to be a bit braver and to publish more of my thoughts on this blog, even if they’re not formed to my level of satisfaction.
