“The worst of using strong language is that it produces weak language.”
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News June 28, 1926 quoted in “More About Language” in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 27 #2 (November/December 2023)
“Ladborough discovered that Lewis got on well with the college servants, who respected and admired him as a person without realizing that he was, in Ladborough’s words, ‘a great man.’ They called him a real gentleman, for he seemed to care about them. This manner of his reflects his greatness. He was not great because of the books he wrote; he wrote the kind of books he wrote because he was great.”
Harry Lee Poe The Completion of C.S. Lewis
“Signs of a narcissistic sociopath/ 1. They live in a deluded reality/ 2. They are obsessed with power and control/ 3. They take advantage of and use other people/ 4. They have no moral boundaries/ 5 They have a limited range of emotions/ 6. They have a huge discard pile/ 7. They become hostile when threatened/ 8. They feed off negative energy/ 9. They get bored easily/ 10. They are empty inside”
Arrived in my X feed in January 2024 (with regard to a particular politician but they're not the only ones).
In my latest Epoch Times column I urge people to put aside small-minded, defeatist, timid claims that practically speaking Canada can only have the bad muddled policies it currently does, and write down what they really think is wrong and what they really think would fix it.
In my latest National Post column I discuss the very good reason Israelis made a very bad deal.
“The modern laxity of language has had a great deal to do with the ultimate laxity of conduct.”
G.K. Chesterton in G.K.’s Weekly July 4, 1931 quoted in “More About Language” in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 27 #2 (November/December 2023)
“Many people today spend their lives in the really delightful pursuit of kickable objects.”
G.K. Chesterton in Acton Gazette December 2, 1910, quoted in “Chesterton for Today” in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 27 #2 (November/December 2023)
“We all know the story of how Herod, alarmed at some rumour of mysterious rival, remembered the wild gesture of the capricious despots of Asia and ordered a massacre of suspects of the new generation of the populace. Everyone knows the story; but not everyone has perhaps noted its place in the story of the strange religions of man. Not everybody has seen the significance even of its very contrast with the Corinthian columns and Roman pavement of that conquered and superficially civilised world. Only, as the purpose in his dark spirit began to show and shine in the eyes of the Idumean, a seer might perhaps have seen something like a great grey ghost that looked over his shoulder; have seen behind him filling the dome of night and hovering for the last time over history, that vast and fearful face that was Moloch of the Carthaginians; awaiting his last tribute from a ruler of the races of Shem. The demons also, in that first festival of Christmas, feasted after their own fashion.”
G.K. Chesterton in “The God in the Cave” in The Everlasting Man, quoted in “GKC on Scripture • Conducted by Peter Floriani” in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 27 #2 (November/December 2023).