The Nature of God
“The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.” - Introduction to The Book of Job.
Creativity
“Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.” - Orthodoxy
Mystery
"As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity." - Orthodoxy
Individuality
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” – The Everlasting Man
Humility
“It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.” – Charles Dickens: A Critical Study
Sin
“Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.” – Orthodoxy
Theology
“Theology is only thought applied to religion.” – The New Jerusalem
Religion
“One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.” The Boston Sunday Post
Idolatry
“Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.” - Illustrated London News
Religious Liberty
“The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing what you really trust.” - G.K.’s Weekly
Humility
"Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak." - The Innocence of Father Brown
Humor
"It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it." – All Things Considered
Being Childlike
"Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, 'Do it again'; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, 'Do it again' to the sun; and every evening, 'Do it again' to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we." - Orthodoxy
Thought
“The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.” – Orthodoxy
Freedom
“According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.” – Orthodoxy
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“The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.” - Introduction to The Book of Job.
Creativity
“Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.” - Orthodoxy
Mystery
"As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity." - Orthodoxy
Individuality
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” – The Everlasting Man
Humility
“It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.” – Charles Dickens: A Critical Study
Sin
“Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.” – Orthodoxy
Theology
“Theology is only thought applied to religion.” – The New Jerusalem
Religion
“One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.” The Boston Sunday Post
Idolatry
“Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.” - Illustrated London News
Religious Liberty
“The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing what you really trust.” - G.K.’s Weekly
Humility
"Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak." - The Innocence of Father Brown
Humor
"It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it." – All Things Considered
Being Childlike
"Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, 'Do it again'; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, 'Do it again' to the sun; and every evening, 'Do it again' to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we." - Orthodoxy
Thought
“The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.” – Orthodoxy
Freedom
“According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.” – Orthodoxy
This post was taken from Relevant Magazine. You can read more athttp://www.relevantmagazine.com/culture/15-chesterton-quotes-will-shape-your-faith#KH9h7foVmm1l817D.99
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