cmotherofpirl Posted June 25, 2004 Posted June 25, 2004 I got this from another site :wub: I think G.K. Chesterton, himself a convert to Catholicism, said it best: "It is impossible to be just to the Catholic Church. The moment men cease to pull against it, they feel a tug toward it. The moment they cease to shout it down they begin to listen to it with pleasure. The moment they try to be fair to it they begin to be fond of it. But when affection has passed a certain point it begins to take on the tragic and menacing grandeur of a great love affair..."
Sojourner Posted June 25, 2004 Posted June 25, 2004 That is a great quote, Cmom. I :wub: GK. I was just re-reading bits of "Orthodoxy" this evening.
BeenaBobba Posted June 25, 2004 Posted June 25, 2004 What a cool qoute! I love G.K. Chesterton. He's so darn eloquent. He says things better than I ever could -- and with such wit, too! God bless, Jen
VeraMaria Posted June 29, 2004 Posted June 29, 2004 This is an AWESOME quote...i looove it....I would put it as my sig but we can only have 100 characters Where did you find that cmom? Was it one of his books or just random?
theculturewarrior Posted July 2, 2004 Posted July 2, 2004 10,000 women were marching in the streets, shouting, "we will not be dictated to," and then they went off and became stenographers --- GK Chesterton.
Rebirth flame Posted July 3, 2004 Posted July 3, 2004 Chesterton rocks my socks off! [quote]"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people." "If there were no God, there would be no atheists." "The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried." "Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable." "I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it." "There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there." "Love means loving the unlovable - or it is no virtue at all." "Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision." "Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before." "A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it." "The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice." "Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it." "I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid." "The reformer is always right about what is wrong. He is generally wrong about what is right." "To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it." "The difficulty of explaining 'why I am a Catholic' is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true. " ~ G.K. Chesterton[/quote] i got these from a friend of mine...!
Colleen Posted July 3, 2004 Posted July 3, 2004 I love Chesterton. :wub: It is not that Catholicism has been tried and found wanting. It is that it has been found difficult and left untried. ~G.K. Chesterton
dairygirl4u2c Posted September 1, 2004 Posted September 1, 2004 I prefer to add some dots to the end of the quote and add more: [quote]"He has come too near to the truth, and has forgotten that truth is a magnet, with the powers of attraction and repulsion…..The moment men cease to pull against it [The Catholic Church] they feel a tug towards it. The moment they cease to shout it down they begin to listen to it with pleasure. The moment they try to be fair to it they begin to be fond of it. But when that affection has passed a certain point it begins to take on the tragic and menacing grandeur of a great love affair…..When he has entered the Church, he finds that the Church is much larger inside than it is outside". [/quote]
peach_cube Posted September 1, 2004 Posted September 1, 2004 Dairy, Didn't know you were a convert...who woulda Thunk!!?!?!?
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