“History presents many occasions for citing Charles Peguy’s aphorism that God writes straight with crooked lines.”
Richard John Neuhaus in First Things August/September 2000
“These old wild images [of centaurs and mermaids, noble in their human parts] included a crucial truth. Man is a monster. And he is all the more a monster because one part of him is perfect.”
G.K. Chesterton “Questions of Divorce,” in Alvaro De Silva, ed. Brave New Family Brave New Family: G.K. Chesterton on Men & Women, Children, Sex, Divorce, Marriage & the Family
In my latest National Post column I tell the Church of England that putting a miniputt in venerable Rochester cathedral means you’re not serious about religion.
“We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.”
Albert Einstein, quoted in Jon Winokur Zen to Go
“In this pathetic and simple-minded view, humans are to be but life-support systems for free-wheeling genitalia.”
William Gairdner The Trouble with Democracy
“No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.”
Elizabeth Bowen, quoted in Jon Winokur Zen to Go
“Maybe we’re all just blobs of sentient meat in a senseless existence.”
Tina in the comic strip “Tina’s Groove” in Ottawa Citizen Feb. 15, 2003
“the world where every star is a diamond, every leaf an emerald, every drop of blood a ruby…”
G.K. Chesterton to his fiancée in a letter after her sister Gertrude died, quoted by David Fagerberg in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 3 #6 (April-May 2001)