Words Worth Noting - December 24, 2025

“Real primary creation (such as the sun or the birth of a child) calls forth not criticism, not appreciation, but a kind of incoherent gratitude. This is why most hymns about God are bad.”

G.K. Chesterton in “The Great Dickens Characters” in Charles Dickens, quoted by Dale Ahlquist in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #4 (March/April 2025) [he says Chesterton’s own “O God of Earth and Altar” (GKC only wrote the words) is good].