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
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Wise Words On Wednesday: Treats
“When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.”
G.K. Chesterton, The Chesterton Review, Feb., 1984
The Tour of Awesome
Many of you will know of Brandon Vogt through the ministry of Bishop Barron and Word on Fire. Brandon and I share a love for several great residents of England: G.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and John Henry Newman. Brandon just posted an extensive blog post talking about his recent trip to England and all the sites he saw there related to these four great men:
Wise Words on Wednesday: The Traveler and The Tourist
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
G.K. Chesterton
Wise Words of Wednesday: The Coming madness…
We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which furious party cries will be raised against anybody who says that cows have horns, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.
– G.K. Chesterton, Illustrated London News (August 14th 1926)
Wise Words on Wednesday: The Christmas Paradox
“Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.”
– G.K. Chesterton
Wise Words on Wednesday: From the eye to the heart
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
– G.K. Chesterton