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• “The House of Christmas” by G.K. Chesterton

  
  Tolle Lege — Authority: 425
  There fared a mother driven forth Out of an inn to roam; In the place where she was homeless All men are at home. The crazy stable close at hand, With shaking timber and shifting sand, Grew a stronger thing to abide and stand Than the square stones of Rome. For men are homesick in their homes, And strangers under the ...
  2 days ago

• The Innocence of Father Brown

  
  Digital Sextant — Authority: 430
  by G.K. Chesterton; Narrated by Brian Roberg for Librivox.orgObviously, I enjoy mystery stories.  And I understand that G.K. Chesterton is a revered and honored British writer, and that his father brown mysteries are most enduring and likeable.  But they didn’t do much for me.Don’t get me wrong, they were clever ...
  5 days ago

• The Donkey And Self-Worth

  
  PimpThisBlog.com - Latest published stories — Authority: 466
  "Written by English poet G.K. Chesterton, The Donkey is a poem that, on some level, everyone can relate to. The poet has made a wise decision in making the language and rhyme scheme simple as it allows the poem to be read and understood by all. Yet, in four brief stanzas, Chesterton conveys a strong reminder about ...
  6 days ago

• Almighty Humility

  
  Mary Victrix — Authority: 460
  Tomorrow night I will be speaking to the men’s discussion group about the mystery of Christmas, in particular about how omnipotence and humility come together in what Anthony Esolen calls Child Everlasting : But can we see the wonder from the other direction? It may be that the child Jesus does not conceal ...
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• Belloc on Chesterton

  
  All Manner of Thing — Authority: 424
  On the Place of Gilbert Chesterton in English Letters Hilaire Belloc (Sheed & Ward, 1940) 84 p.  First reading. Belloc published this essay several years after the death of his friend G.K. Chesterton.  In it he attempts — if Belloc ever merely attempted anything — to enumerate those special qualities ...
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• USA’s ‘White Collar’: Solid Entertainment, Solid Values

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 750
  In the classic manner of series television, the USA Network’s latest new dramedy, White Collar (Fridays at 10 EST), smartly combines elements common to numerous other contemporary TV crime dramas, especially other USA Network shows , in a way calculated to maximize both familiarity and originality. Thus we have ...
  2 weeks ago

• Wisdom of G. K. Chesterton

  
  A Bit of the Blarney — Authority: 124
  Homeless in Our Homes The Christmas season is domestic; and for that reason most people now prepare for it by struggling in tramcars, standing in queues, and rushing away in trains, crowding despairingly into teashops, and wondering when or whether they will ever get home. I do not know whether some of them ...
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• Humility in the Wrong Place

  
  Thinking Matters Talk — Authority: 427
  “But what we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction; where it was never meant to be. A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed. Nowadays the ...
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• G.K. Chesterton

  
  The StoopidNoodle — Authority: 99
  Image via Wikipedia “…was a man who read his Bible.  That was the matter with him.  When will people understand that it is useless for a man to read his Bible unless he also reads everybody else’s Bible?  A printer reads a Bible for misprints.  A Mormon reads his Bible, and finds polygamy; a Christian ...
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• Wisdom of G. K. Chesterton

  
  A Bit of the Blarney — Authority: 124
  Appreciation The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them. ~Autobiography~ LEARNING CONTENTMENT I have learned to be content with whatever I have. I know what it is to have little, and I ...
  3 weeks ago

• “Christmas Poem” by G.K. Chesterton [Midweek Edition]

  
  The Englewood Review of Books — Authority: 134
  “Christmas Poem” G.K. Chesterton There fared a mother driven forth Out of an inn to roam; In the place where she was homeless All men are at home. The crazy stable close at hand, With shaking timber and shifting sand, Grew a stronger thing to abide and stand Than the square stones of Rome. For men are homesick ...
  3 weeks ago

• Wisdom of G. K. Chesterton

  
  A Bit of the Blarney — Authority: 124
  Every year I take it out again and start all over. This is a good thing. There are some traditions that are new. This one started 3 years ago when my dear friend Martha gave me the book, Advent and Christmas, Wisdom from G. K. Chesterton , edited by The Center for the Study of C. S. Lewis and Friends and published ...
  3 weeks ago

• Christianity & Nature

  
  Caffeinated Thoughts — Authority: 138
  How should Christians view nature?  Not the way many environmentalists do.  We are stewards of creation, nature is not our sovereign.  G.K Chesterton writes what a Christian’s perspective of nature should be: The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really in this proposition: ...
  3 weeks ago

• On a Mission For God in Haiti

  
  Andrew Ferguson — Authority: 121
  I will be sending out letters later this week, but I wanted to provide an update on my plans now! Dear Friends, It is with great excitement that I write to you about this next step in life. As you know, I graduated this past May from the Colorado School of Mines with a Bachelors of Science in Engineering. ...
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• Brain food

  
  Interstitial — Authority: 125
  for the day after Thanksgiving here is some brain food from John Piper and G.K. Chesterton.G. K. Chesterton helps explain why.It’s not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay a difference of creed unites men—so long as it is a clear difference . . . So a Tory can walk up to the very edge [...]
  4 weeks ago

• Friday Night Miscellany

  
  Thinking Matters Talk — Authority: 427
  Some late night Friday reading from the interwebs. Knock yourselves out, peeps. Christianity and Politics -This week, the story that has dominated discussion in Christian circles has been the recent joint declaration by Evangelical, Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian leaders on the need for Christians to ...
  4 weeks ago

• Quotation for Today, Tuesday 24 November

  
  The Inquiring Mind — Authority: 487
  “The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.” G K Chesterton
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• Good Things Running Wild

  
  Caffeinated Thoughts — Authority: 138
  Recently I read an interesting passage in Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton: It (Christianity) came in here as before.  It came in startlingly with a sword, and clove one thing from another.  It divided the crime from the criminal.  The criminal we must forgive unto seventy times seven.  The crime we must not ...
  5 weeks ago

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