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It is preferable to have the whole world against thee, than Jesus offended with thee.
-Thomas á Kempis
-Thomas á Kempis
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The author of the Narnia novels, C.S. Lewis, credited Chesterton as one of the two writers that made him. He later claimed that Chesterton's The Everlasting Man “was the best popular defense of the full Christian position I know.” and “Chesterton had more sense than all the other ating, of course, his Christianity.”
“In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere — "Bibles laid open, millions of surprises," as Herbert says, "fine nets and stratagems." God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.” — C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
“In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere — "Bibles laid open, millions of surprises," as Herbert says, "fine nets and stratagems." God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.” — C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
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You should go check out WoG’s series of tweets on Chesterton. Fantastic content.
When the British actor Alec Guinness converted to Catholicism in 1956 it was not even two years after playing the role of Chesterton's Father Brown (in the movie The Detective in the US release). In his 1985 autobiography Blessings in Disguise he describes a seminal moment in the o his hotel one evening, still in costume as Father Brown, he met a young boy:
I hadn't gone far when I heard scampering footsteps and a piping voice calling, "Mon père!" My hand was seized by a boy of seven or eight, who clutched it tightly, swung it and kept up a non- stop prattle. He was full of excitement, hops, skips and jumps, but never let go of me. I didn't dare speak in case my excruciating French should scare him. Although I was a total stranger he obviously took me for a priest and so to be trusted. Suddenly with a "Bonsoir, Mon père," and a hurried sideways sort of bow, he disappeared through a hole in a hedge. He had had a happy, reassuring walk home, and I was left with an odd calm sense of elation. Continuing my walk I reflected that a Church which could inspire such a confidence in a child, making its priests, even when unknown, so easily approachable could not be as scheming and creepy as so often made out.
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According to the Tolkien scholar Holly Ordway, Priscilla Tolkien claimed her father J.R.R. was "steeped in Chesterton" and would recite Chesterton's epic poem Lepanto by heart. According to George Sayers, Tolkien "had a great liking and appreciation for The Everlasting man" and ld." He also appreciated both the books Orthodoxy and Heretics.
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The British philosopher Alan Watts (1915-1973) who would later popularize Zen buddhism in the West, wrote immediately after Chesterton's death in 1936 that it felt "almost like a personal loss...with no writer of today did I find myself in deeper sympathy."
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Jesus has chosen to show me the only way which leads to the Divine Furnace of love; it is the way of childlike self-surrender, the way of a child who sleeps, afraid of nothing, in its father’s arms.
-St. Therese
-St. Therese
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"Animals walk around in a state of permanent religious intoxication."
Not every prayer needs an audience.
God sees the quiet ones. 🙏
Credit: @nobye.ai (Instagram)
Original: instagram.com/p/DfejpeuDcLq/
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When the mind understands something else, that thing is like the father of the idea and the mind is more like the mother. But when God understands Himself, the Word He conceives is related to Him as Son to Father. So the divine Word is truly the Son.
- Aquinas
This is historic Christian teaching. The Father-Son relation is grounded in the eternal intellectual generation of the Word, not just the incarnation.
- Aquinas
This is historic Christian teaching. The Father-Son relation is grounded in the eternal intellectual generation of the Word, not just the incarnation.
I'm amazed at the # of Christians who believe, since God took on the human form of a biological male, we can conclude that God the Father is eternally male.
Also amazed at the anger generated by pointing out this is not historic Christian teaching.
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For the good which I will, I do not: but the evil which I will not, that I do.
Unhappy man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Unhappy man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
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It's best to learn to silence the faculties and to cause them to be still, so that God may speak.
-St John of the Cross
-St John of the Cross
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“For without Thee, what am I but a guide to my own destruction? or at my best what am I but an infant suckled on Thy milk and feeding upon Thee, O Food incorruptible?” — St. Augustine, Confessions.
(Gustave Doré, “The Close of the Crucifixion”, 1880)
(Gustave Doré, “The Close of the Crucifixion”, 1880)
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“No, I will not buy your shit kid an Xbox for Christmas as “charity.” Stop asking.”
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Trad land has an arrogant, obnoxious, grifter influencer problem that needs dealt with.
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For also, when we were with you, this we declared to you: that, if any man will not work, neither let him eat.
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