Tragedy, Comedy and Sanity
April 19, 2007
“He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.”
G. K. Chesterton – Tremendous Trifles, 1909
Space Travel
April 2, 2007
“Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.”
C. S. Lewis
“Amphibians”
March 30, 2007
“Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.”
C. S. Lewis
Groaning of Creation
March 14, 2007
“There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over… Faint to my ears came the gathered rumour of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.”
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 – 1973)
Mystical, Living Tradition
March 7, 2007
Tradition, which some have called a dead thing, is really a thing far more living than the intellect. There is a dark kinship and brotherhood of all mankind which is much too deep to be called heredity or to be in any way explained in scientific formulae.
G. K. Chesterton “Christmas Books” <em>Appreciations</em>
The Swing of the Pendulum
March 1, 2007
“The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum; that is, the idea that Man must go alternately from one extreme to the other. It is a shameful and even shocking fancy; it is the denial of the whole dignity of mankind. When Man is alive he stands still. It is only when he is dead that he swings.”
G. K. Chesterton, “The New House” Alarms and Discursions
The Citadel
February 7, 2007
“The center of every man’s existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel.”
G. K. Chesterton – “Sir Walter Scott,” Twelve Types
Clever Devil
January 27, 2007
“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
C. S. Lewis
Unanswerable Questions
January 21, 2007
“Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.”
C. S. Lewis
. . . of True Worth
January 9, 2007
“All that is gold does not glitter,
not all those who wander are lost;
the old that is strong does not wither,
deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
a light from the shadows shall spring;
renenwed shall be blade that was broken,
the crownless again shall be king.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord Of The Ring
