Comments on: “A fiercer delight” http://chesterton.wordpress.com/2008/04/23/a-fiercer-delight/ Take a healthy dose of G.K. Chesterton once each week Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:31:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Michael http://chesterton.wordpress.com/2008/04/23/a-fiercer-delight/#comment-887 Michael Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:18:21 +0000 http://chesterton.wordpress.com/?p=82#comment-887 One of my favorite Chesterton passages, for I am always in need of rousing from a "surly contentment." Thanks for taking the time to post all these, I'm enjoying it. One of my favorite Chesterton passages, for I am always in need of rousing from a “surly contentment.”

Thanks for taking the time to post all these, I’m enjoying it.

]]> By: Giangaleazzo http://chesterton.wordpress.com/2008/04/23/a-fiercer-delight/#comment-842 Giangaleazzo Fri, 02 May 2008 13:41:18 +0000 http://chesterton.wordpress.com/?p=82#comment-842 "I would rather that you were hot or cold, but not lukewarm." Ecclesia militans. Too often do we forget such terms, and I believe this is what Chesterton talks about underneath this wonderful prose. However, the practical problem is that truth is being obscured from the reach of many. "A city seated on a hill cannot be hid. Neither do men put a candle under a vessel." Alas, there are powerful forces which aim to overthrow this light. We must fight for truth and that it be brought to light, for only then can we storm castles during the day, and yet take rest in our cottage at evening. The Faith of all times is ever new, and ever sweet, for its fountains never run dry. And as St. Maximus the Confessor says, "Joy" is the best term for the life to come, and so we may say that, if our labors strive towards it, it will bear fruit with the same name. "Iugum enim meum suave est et onus meum leve est - For my yoke is sweet and my burden light." Here's a somewhat relevant quote, from "The Religious Aim of Education." Though this is just a small, though significant field in the war. Many who would despise anything so classical as the teaching of rhetoric, are always ready with any amount of rhetoric in praise of the teaching of science. I am not attacking the teaching of science, still less the teachers of science; I am saying the teaching of evolution, if it becomes an atmosphere, cannot be an atmosphere favourable to moral fire or a fighting spirit. To put it shortly, the teaching of evolution is hardly the training for revolution. -http://chesterton.org/gkc/theologian/therel.htm “I would rather that you were hot or cold, but not lukewarm.”

Ecclesia militans. Too often do we forget such terms, and I believe this is what Chesterton talks about underneath this wonderful prose. However, the practical problem is that truth is being obscured from the reach of many. “A city seated on a hill cannot be hid. Neither do men put a candle under a vessel.” Alas, there are powerful forces which aim to overthrow this light.

We must fight for truth and that it be brought to light, for only then can we storm castles during the day, and yet take rest in our cottage at evening. The Faith of all times is ever new, and ever sweet, for its fountains never run dry. And as St. Maximus the Confessor says, “Joy” is the best term for the life to come, and so we may say that, if our labors strive towards it, it will bear fruit with the same name. “Iugum enim meum suave est et onus meum leve est - For my yoke is sweet and my burden light.”

Here’s a somewhat relevant quote, from “The Religious Aim of Education.” Though this is just a small, though significant field in the war.

Many who would despise anything so classical as the teaching of rhetoric, are always ready with any amount of rhetoric in praise of the teaching of science. I am not attacking the teaching of science, still less the teachers of science; I am saying the teaching of evolution, if it becomes an atmosphere, cannot be an atmosphere favourable to moral fire or a fighting spirit. To put it shortly, the teaching of evolution is hardly the training for revolution.

-http://chesterton.org/gkc/theologian/therel.htm

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