Unique Purpose

“Believe, amid whatever madness or moral failure, that your life and temperament have some object on earth. Believe that you have something to give the world which cannot otherwise be given.”

G. K. Chesterton, (“Philosophy of Browning,” Robert Browning)

Mystical, Living Tradition

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

“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

Clever Devil

“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”

C. S. Lewis