Wise Words On Wednesday: Defending Virtue
“The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.”
G.K. Chesterton, “A Defense of Humilities,” The Defendant
"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
“The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.”
G.K. Chesterton, “A Defense of Humilities,” The Defendant
“For the secular society of today is skeptical not merely about spiritual assumptions, but about its own secular assumptions. It has not merely broken the church window or besieged the tower of tradition; it has also kicked away the ladder of progress by which it had climbed.
The Declaration of Independence, once the charter of democracy, begins by saying that certain things are self-evident. If we were to trace the history of the American mind from Thomas Jefferson to William James, we should find that fewer and fewer things were self-evident, until at last hardly anything is self-evident.
So far from it being self-evident to the modern that men are created equal, it is not self-evident that men are created, or even that men are men.”
– G.K. Chesterton, 1926
“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
To celebrate Chesterton’s birthday there’ll be celebratory drinks at Theology On Tap tonight!
“A room without books is like a body without a soul”
– G. K. Chesterton
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
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!