First Day of the New Creation

One of the Best Easter Quotes Ever! 

On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; but even they hardly realized that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but the dawn.

- G. K. Chesterton,  The Everlasting Man

HT:  Randy, Vitamin Z

Full of Yes

"G. K. Chesterton delighted in paradox, and so it was not surprising that he delighted in God.....

....Loving both freedom and paradox, Chesterton argued for the beauty of the Ten Commandments, seeing in them not a world full of no, but of yes. He wrote that 'the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but... of its liberality and humility and humanity {because] most things are permitted. 

We are so conditioned to think of religion as being a bunch of rules - of the commandments as being a sometimes sensible, sometime irrelevant, sometimes annoying list of restrictions - that Chesterton's words seem almost absurd. But Chesterton was correct. There is nothing wider than God's mercy or deeper than his love, if we consent to bend to him, rather than toward our own inclinations.  From where we stand, however, we may easily miss the insight. it seems too simple, and we super-bright twenty-first-century beings are living in a very complicated place."

 - Elizabeth Scalia in  Strange Gods: Unmasking the Idols in Everyday Life., page 118

The Real Monsters

Though St. John saw many strange monsters in Revelation, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.

- GK Chesterton

Do It Again

"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

Doubled By Wonder

"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."

                    - G. K. Chesterton

Exulting in Monotony

"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 gotten tired of making them."

- G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy