“Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.”
G.K. Chesterton, “On Experience,” in All Is Grist, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 #3 (Dec. 2000)
“What is happening to us is that we don’t know what is happening to us and that is exactly what is happening to us.”
José Ortega y Gasset, quoted by Allan Gotlieb in National Post November 17, 2000
“The oldest rule in economics, [U.S.] CBO director Douglas Holtz-Eakin said on Tuesday, is ‘we cannot do everything.’”
Marcus Gee in Globe & Mail August 28, 2003
“For Wit and Judgment often are at strife,/ Tho’ meant each other’s Aid, like Man and Wife.”
Alexander Pope “An Essay on Criticism”
“I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself."
G. K. Chesterton, quoted on Thinkexist.com
“Few Christian thinkers have so well understood [as Luther] the abyss of despair that is the alternative to the utterly gratuitous love of God in Christ.”
Richard John Neuhaus in First Things January 2004
Employee: “Sorry about missing that meeting, sir. You must think I’m a complete idiot.”
Boss: “No, of course I don’t. You’re much too lazy to complete anything.”
"Real Life Adventures" cartoon in Montreal Gazette July 9, 2002
“Only miracle is plain; it is the ordinary that groans with the unutterable weight of glory.”
Robert Farrar Capon The Supper of the Lamb