Chesterton
Weekends with Chesterton: Education
Over the years, I have read a number of books by G.K. Chesterton. However, since I am not currently reading anything by this great Catholic writer, I thought that I wouldn’t be joining Sarah for her Weekends with Chesterton. Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen’s Children and Parents caused me to change my mind. In his book, Venerable…
Read MoreBut the men signed of the cross of Christ go gaily in the dark…
My friend, Peggy Sue, shared this with our homeschool group today. The Ballad of the White HorseBy Dale Ahlquist Chesterton may have considered The Ballad of the White Horse his greatest literary accomplishment. I have two reasons for saying that. First of all, it is a masterpiece. But it was the only one of his works that…
Read MoreChesterton on “Keeping Christ in Christmas”
“You cannot chip away the statue of a mother from all round that of a newborn child. You cannot suspend the new-born child in mid-air; indeed you cannot really have a statue of a newborn child at all. Similarly, you cannot suspend the idea of a newborn child in the void or think of him…
Read MoreChesterton’s Thoughts on Eugenics
from What is Eugenics? People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. ~ The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. IV, p. 297 ~
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from What is Eugenics? People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. ~ The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. IV, p. 297 ~
Read MoreChesterton’s Thoughts on Christian Feasts
from The Story of the Vow It is often said by the critics of Christian origins that certain ritual feasts, processions or dances are really of pagan origin. They might as well say that our legs are of pagan origin. Nobody ever disputed that humanity was human before it was Christian; and no Church manufactured…
Read MoreChesterton’s Thoughts on Christian Feasts
from The Story of the Vow It is often said by the critics of Christian origins that certain ritual feasts, processions or dances are really of pagan origin. They might as well say that our legs are of pagan origin. Nobody ever disputed that humanity was human before it was Christian; and no Church manufactured…
Read MoreChesterton’s Thoughts on Family and Education
from The Story of the Family The most vital function [the family] performs, perhaps the most vital function that anything can perform, is that of education; but its type of early education is far too essential to be mistaken for instruction. ~ The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. IV p. 257 ~
Read MoreChesterton’s Thoughts on Family and Education
from The Story of the Family The most vital function [the family] performs, perhaps the most vital function that anything can perform, is that of education; but its type of early education is far too essential to be mistaken for instruction. ~ The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. IV p. 257 ~
Read MoreChesterton’s Thoughts on Marriage
from The Superstition of Divorce It is not hard to see why the vow made most freely is the vow kept most firmly. There are attached to it, by the nature of things, consequences so tremendous that no contract can offer any comparison. There is no contract, unless it be that said to be signed…
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from The Superstition of Divorce It is not hard to see why the vow made most freely is the vow kept most firmly. There are attached to it, by the nature of things, consequences so tremendous that no contract can offer any comparison. There is no contract, unless it be that said to be signed…
Read MoreChesterton’s Thoughts on Education
from What’s Wrong with the World It is quaint that people talk of separating dogma from education. Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It is education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.~ G.K. Chesterton: Collected Works, Volume IV, p. 162 But…
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