I need to read more Chesterton!
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/80
I've read Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton and The Everlasting Man and they were both good. Here's a link to his works on Project Gutenberg (free e-books!), and I will follow up with a few cool quotes from him that prompted this post:
"Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags." G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (1908)
"At least five times... the Faith has to all appearances gone to the dogs. In each of these five cases, it was the dog that died." G. K. Chesterton
“[Christianity] has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult, and left untried.” G. K. Chesterton
"MAN IS AN exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head."
G.K. Chesterton, All Things Considered, chapter 28, “Wine When It Is Red” (London: Methuen & Co., 1908), 232–33.
"AN ALMOST UNNATURAL vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old. It is the custom in passing romance and journalism to talk of men suffering under old tyrannies. But, as a fact, men have almost always suffered under new tyrannies; under tyrannies that had been public liberties hardly twenty years before."
G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, chapter 7, “The Eternal Revolution” (New York: John Lane Company, 1909), 213.
"Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government."
The collected works of G.K. Chesterton (ed. Ignatius Pr, 1987)
Orthodoxy is one of my all time favorite books.
