“In our day the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur has written powerfully about the ‘second naïveté’ that is the mark of true faith. A century earlier, Kierkegaard wrote about ‘the second immediacy,’ the possibility of being a child or youth for the second time.”
Richard John Neuhaus, “Kierkegaard for Grownups,” in First Things #146 (October 2004)
“But when your sword breaks, you draw your dagger.”
Nikabrik [re using bad magic, however] in C.S. Lewis Prince Caspian
“‘Isaiah 11:6. The wolf shall dwell with the lamb: and the leopard shall lie down with the kid: the calf and the lion, and the sheep shall abide together, and a little child shall lead them.’ [Dr. Floriani notes: Unless I am gravely mistaken (and have lost all grasp of the printed word) this is the verse often quoted (I mean mis-quoted) as “And the lion shall lie down with the lamb” which does not occur in Scripture.]”
“GKC on Scripture * Conducted by Peter Floriani” in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 #1 (September-October 2022).
“In the famous exchange of letters (in Latin) between C.S. Lewis and St. Giovanni Calabria, Lewis makes a prescient remark: ‘They err who say: “The world is turning pagan again.” Would that it were! The truth is, we are falling into a much worse state. Post-Christian man is not the same as pre-Christian man. He is as far removed as a virgin from a widow.’”
Ted Janiszewski in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 #1 (Sept.-Oct. 2022)
“The same age which tends to economic slavery tends to social anarchy; and especially to sexual anarchy. So long as men can be driven in droves like sheep, they can be as promiscuous as sheep.”
G.K. Chesterton in G.K.’s Weekly March 9, 1929, quoted in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 #1 (Sept.-Oct. 2022)
“Educate men without religion and you make them clever devils.”
The Duke of Wellington according to AZ Quotes [https://www.azquotes.com/author/15482-Duke_of_Wellington]
“‘I try to be, as G.K. Chesterton once wrote, ‘wise enough to be made a fool of.’”
Susan Cheever in Newsday November 12, 2002 p. B02, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 7 #1 (9/03)
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance and, if true, is of infinite importance. The one thing it cannot be is moderately important.”
– C.S. Lewis, quoted on https://twitter.com/CSLewisDaily/status/1595888784704507905