Why the Church?

The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became man for no other purpose. - C.S. Lewis

If the churches ever did reunite, it would have to be into something that was as sacramental and liturgical and authoritative as the Roman Catholic Church and as protesting against abuses and as much focused on the individual in his direct relationship with Christ as the Evangelicals, as charismatic as the Pentecostals, as missionary-minded as the old mainline denominations, as focused on holiness as the Methodists or the Quakers, as committed to the social aspects of the Gospel as the social activists, as Biblical as fundamentalists, and as mystical as the Eastern Orthodox. - Peter Kreeft

The difficulty explaining why I am Catholic is that there are 10,000 reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true. - G.K. Chesterton

Freedom from degrading slavery

The Catholic Church is the only thing which saves a man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age. - G.K. Chesterton

Rain, rain go away

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. - Gilbert K. Chesterton

Into the New Year

The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul. – G. K. Chesterton

Something to give to the world

Everyone on this earth should believe, amid whatever madness or moral failure, that his life and temperament have some object on the earth. Everyone on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given. - Chesterton

Dragons can be beaten

Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. -- G. K. Chesterton

Not the end of the world kiddo

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged. - Gilbert K. Chesterton

Doubled by wonder

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. - Gilbert K. Chesterton

Mercy & Justice

Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy. - G. K. Chesterton

Fated

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in the fate that falls on men unless they act. - G. K. Chesterton

Contradiction in terms

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. - Chesterton

Unlearning

The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things. - Chesterton

CHEESE!

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of 
cheese. - G. K. Chesterton


This was yesterday's funny quote at the bottom of the blog, good enough to save and post.  

St. Maria Goretti

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.  - G. K. Chesterton

To be pure, to remain pure, can only come at a price, the price of knowing God and loving Him enough to do His will. He will always give us the strength we need to keep purity as something as beautiful for Him. - Blessed Mother Teresa

I'm bored. No, you are boring.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. -G. K. Chesterton

Going against the stream

A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.  - Everlasting Man, 1925 G. K. Chesterton

Virtue and vice

The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice. - Chesterton

Progress and reflection

Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back. - What's Wrong With The World, 1910 G. K. Chesterton

Fences

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up. -G. K. Chesterton

Levity

Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity. - The Man Who was Thursday, 1908  G. K. Chesterton
       I don't know about the truth of this quote, but I certainly hope in it. There is rarely something so terrible that one cannot find the good in it, rarely something so sorrowful than one can not bring levity to the situation. I do what I can to bring levity, humor and general goofiness to much of what I do.  Life is so serious, I want to season it with humor, temper it with laughter, and find the ironic and absurd in the moments that unfold before us.