"The habit of contemplation, the ability to sit down in front of something and care enough to let it speak for itself, cannot be acquired soon enough."
Robert Farrar Capon, The Supper of the Lamb p. xiii.
"The habit of contemplation, the ability to sit down in front of something and care enough to let it speak for itself, cannot be acquired soon enough."
Robert Farrar Capon, The Supper of the Lamb p. xiii.
In my latest National Post column I say the horrific mass killing of pedestrians in Toronto reminds us of the central role of moral choice in all our lives.
"Some people are always grumbling that roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses."
Alphonse Karr, "French critic and novelist” quoted as "Thought du jour" in "Social Studies" in Globe & Mail April 25, 2011
"an open mind is salutary, but one whose hinge is off?"
"H. Smith" [according to my detailed but now sadly incomprehensible note as to its origin]
"The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them."
G.K. Chesterton, Autobiography, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 #7
"Truth unasserted is a lie unopposed."
George Jonas in the National Post Dec. 11, 2010
"It will not do to offer democracy, secularism and licentious living as an alternative to religious extremism. The answer to bad religion is good religion — to put it more elegantly, theology is required to answer the false claims of unreasonable religious positions."
Fr. Raymond J. De Souza in National Post January 31, 2008 (after favourably quoting George Weigel's claim that "It is thus a great folly to think that jihadism and the terrorism it underwrites can be understood in terms drawn primarily from the patois of the therapeutic society, as if jihadist terrorism were some Levantine form of psychiatric aberration. Within their own theological frame of reference and the reading of history it warrants, jihadists are not crazy. They make, to themselves, a terrible kind of sense.")
"There are some people - and I am one of them - who think that the most practical and important thing about a man is still his view of the universe."
G.K. Chesterton, quoted in William James Pragmatism