Ghost of a Flea has shared a quote from one of my favourite books of all time, Chesterton's Orthodoxy. Check it out. Nick has included a link to a site where you can read the entire book, or if you value your eyes at all, pint it out a paper copy.
Note to Nick: I was going to thank you on your site but the new comment system locked me out. Once you goof it, you can't use your e-mail to create a new login.
Ps. I bowed out of Flea's site too quickly. He's quoted Tolkien as well.
Ecce Homo I haven't done a quote from Pope Ratzinger's Introduction to Chistianty in a while and even though I have finished the book there are still one or two passages I want to share, including - perhaps even especially - this one. When I first began to look over what Christianity teaches, to look at the gospel story and to try penetrate why it has been so compelling to so many for so long, this was one of the things that leapt out at me. I was happy to see our Pope confirm it. Expanding on the Apostles Creed where it says "... suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried," Ratzinger writes: The fact that when the perfectly just man appeared he was crucified, delivered up by justice to death, tells us pitilessly who man is: Thou art such, man, that thou canst not bear the just man - that he who simply loves becomes a fool, a scourged criminal, an outcast. Thou art such because, unjust thyself, thou dost always need the injustice of the n...
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