"The modern world may or may not recover a religion, but it is rapidly making a mythology"
-The Century Magazine, May 1923
"[They] are in one sense very narrow indeed. They are progressive: that is, they deal in terms of time and not of eternity."
-The Century Magazine, December 1922
"His greatest defect as a poet is a desire to scorn things, which means a desire to be ignorant of them. The true poet shuts nothing out; he looks upon nothing contemptuously, except perhaps upon contempt."
-The Pall Magazine, Volume XXV, September-December 1901
"He has...the fighting spirit, due not to the presence of courage, which is a spiritual virtue, but to the absence of fear, which is an animal defect"
--The Pall Magazine, Volume XXV, September-December 1901
"In the abstract the educated have, no doubt, an advantage over the uneducated; only it happens that we all have a gradual and growing conviction that those who have been educated have been educated wrong."
-The Reader, volume 9 (1907)
7 comments:
Anonymous said...
I recently heard a qoute of Chesterton on Catholic radio by you concerning when secularist try to destroy the Church, they destroy not the Church but secular things. Would t be possolble to E-mail me th whole qoute? I want to use it in teaching my adult classes at my parish. My E-mail adress is dennishallisey@gmail.com
Thank you
Hello,
I'm not quite sure what you are referring to by the "Catholic radio" bit...
As for the Chesterton quote, however, I have posted it here:
http://platitudesundone.blogspot.com/2012/06/men-who-begin-to-fight-church-for-sake.html
OK, trying this link again.
Hope that helps. :-)
(BTW, since you apparently posted four times accidentally I assumed, I just cleared up the first three.)
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