"We already are"

Check out Week 429 "We Already Are (Matt 28)" - if you need a good shaking, like I did.

I listened to this on a Friday, and on Sunday, guess which passage was discussed at the church I went to? Yep.

From the mind of G. K. Chesterton

The man authored one of my favorite books; he captured his spiritual journey in the most challenging, helpful, insightful, entertaining package. Reading it was like being splashed with a bucket of cold water - when you deserve it. Shocking, but refreshing. And then you laugh. It's the best.

If you know C.S. Lewis or Philip Yancey - they are both big fans.

He's worth a read. Warning: Two friends who are reader-types said they couldn't get into it (Orthodoxy). Bear in mind he's a pre-television writer and not as accessible as say, Lewis, but if you are patient and end up getting into it, it will blow your mind.

Below is a sampling of quotes, should you decide not to attempt a book.

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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

The most astonishing thing about miracles is that they happen.

The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

Love means loving the unlovable - or it is no virtue at all.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.

A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

More here.