Random Chesterton

Here a few great snippets from G.K. Chesterton's masterpiece Orthodoxy. You can expect some more of him in the next week or so. Quotes suck without any context and are hard to understand. But it's late and I don't feel like giving you any context, so deal with it and enjoy anyway. If nothing else it'll give your brain some exercise.

To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.
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We need...the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.
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It is the happy man who does the useless things; the sick man is not strong enough to be idle.
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How much happier would you be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos, scattering the stars like spangles, and leave you in the open, free like other men to look up as well as down!
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Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.


shalom, matt