Changed Eyes

Here's a quote to expand your thinking:

“Most probably we are in Eden still. It is only our eyes that have changed.”

–G.K. Chesterton, Introduction to The Defendant

Hat tip: The Anchoress

Large Lives, Small Selves

In his book Orthodoxy, G. K. Chesteron wrote, “How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it.” Nothing makes you more aware of your smallness and life’s potential bigness than being in relationship with the Living God.

(Reading this post by Tullian Tchividjian at On Earth as it is in Heaven was worth it for me just to get this one quote.)

Swim Against the Tide

“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”
- G. K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

Hat Tip : The Anchoress

Do It Again

"A child kicks his legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, “Do it again”; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, “Do it again” to the sun; and every evening, “Do it again” to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we."

G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, Chapter 4

Hat Tip: The Shepherd's Scrapbook