“The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister. We can be proud of her beauty, since we have the same father; but she has no authority over us; we have to admire, but not to imitate. This gives to the typically Christian pleasure in this earth a strange touch of lightness that is almost frivolity. Nature was a solemn mother to the worshipers of Isis and Cybele. Nature was a solemn mother to Wordsworth or to Emerson. But Nature is not solemn to Francis of Assisi or to George Herbert. To St. Francis, Nature is a sister, and even a younger sister: a little, dancing sister, to be laughed at as well as loved.”
― Orthodoxy
― Orthodoxy
“Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.”
― Brave New Family: G.K. Chesterton on Men and Women, Children, Sex, Divorce, Marriage and the Family
― Brave New Family: G.K. Chesterton on Men and Women, Children, Sex, Divorce, Marriage and the Family
“The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.”
― Introduction to the Book of Job
― Introduction to the Book of Job
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