A few quotes to ponder

While I am in the thick of things -working on a project that needs some prayers and more genius than we have around this place- enjoy the beautiful mums photographed by Ann Althouse, and a few pithy quotes. Perhaps one will seem meant for you to think on, like Lectio!

From G.K. Chesterton:

1) You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

2) If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

3) People who make history know nothing about history; you can see that in the sort of history they make.

4) Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong. It means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

5) The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

From C.S. Lewis

1) God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

2) If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

3) The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

4) Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

5) No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

From Oscar Wilde:

1) Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

2) Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

3) Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

4) Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.

5) When you really want love, you will find it waiting for you.