When I had fallen away from practicing in college I don't know how but I found a copy of Orthodoxy in the library. Helped inspire the intellectual Catholic in me
He's quite popular in Poland too. Mostly of the quote that goes "I judged Poles by their enemies. And I found out that their enemies were the enemies of magnanimity and manhood"
Chestertons writtings, specifically “The Everlasting Man” were some of the central parts of helping me convert to the One True Church. Thank God for Chesterton.
Chesterton, together with Augustine, St. John Paul II, and Fr. Richard John Neuhaus all played a role in bringing me, as a Lutheran, home to my Mother, the Church. May I one day have a chance to say thank you to each of them in Heaven. Read Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man. You will never see the world, and how its Creator may well see it Himself, the same.
“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” - G.K. Chesterton “As each one has received a gift, employ it in serving one another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God- whoever speaks, as one speaking the oracles of God; whoever serves, as one serving by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory and might forever and ever. Amen.” (1 Peter 4:10-11 LSB)
“His humour was of the kind I like best - not “jokes” imbedded in the page like currants in a cake, still less (what I cannot endure), a general tone of flippancy and jocularity, but the humour which is not in any way separable from the argument but is rather (as Aristotle would say) the “bloom” on dialectic itself. The sword glitters not because the swordsman set out to make it glitter but because he is fighting for his life and therefore moving it very quickly. For the critics who think Chesterton frivolous or “paradoxical” I have to work hard to feel even pity; sympathy is out of the question. Moreover, strange as it may seem, I liked him for his goodness.” -C.S. Lewis
As a self proclaimed Protestant, Orthodoxy by GKC has been one of my favorite books from college into manhood, and I’ve gone on to look up or read everything he wrote I can get my hands on. Even if it’s a piece of fiction that he might’ve read I want to know what he thought.
I just finished Heretics. And MY OH MY! Several times, I would read a sentence, and have to put the book down and digest the saying for a while. Many times, he says things that sounds so backwards but are so obviously true!
I owe one half of my conversion to Chesterton (the other half I owe to Fulton Sheen). Before I read GKC I thought all Christians were either dumb or boring. I was never happier to be proven so wrong in my life.
Thank you so much! I read what felt accessible to me of Chesterton several years ago but your sharing him here has made me homesick for him. Your presentation of him is so reminiscent of my own experience. I will be rereading soon.
Thanks for speaking about Chesterton, Father. I’d heard of him, read a fiction book or two, and watched the Fr Brown films and TV series, but didn’t really appreciate the depth of his works till listening to this talk. Now I’m motivated to explore his various works. BTW, the publication you were referring to was called the Illustrated London News.
I do like Chesterton very much, but if any novels were an influence on me becoming Catholic, not that I knew it at the time of reading, I'd say 'Brideshead' and 'Monseigneur Quixote' .
Joseph Pearce wrote in his book "Literary Catholics, Literary Converts": "The most striking example of Chesterton's influence on Waugh is to be found in the way that Chesterton inspired 'Brideshead' Revisited, arguably the finest of Waugh's novels and undeniably one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. The novel's central theme of the redemption of lost souls by means of 'the unseen hook and invisible line...the twitch upon the thread' was taken from one of Chesterton's Father Brown stories. Waugh told a friend that he was anxious to obtain a copy of the omnibus edition of the Father Brown stories at the time he was putting the finishing touches to 'Brideshead', and a memorandum he wrote for MGM studios when a film version of the novel was being considered confirmed the profundity of Chesterton's influence: " 'The Roman Catholic Church has the unique power of keeping remote control over human souls which have once been part of her. G.K. Chesterton has compared this to the fisherman's line, which allows the fish the illusion of free play in the water and yet has him by the hook; in his own time the fisherman by a "twitch upon the thread" draws the fish to land."
What I think is unfair is the Church is looking at everything this man did and wrote with a fine tooth comb, but others have been canonized a lot faster. Unless martyrdom, then needs to be a 50-100 year eait before somebody is fully canonized.
Has anyone read Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome K. Jerome? They were contemporaries and I get the same reverance-humility essence from the both. Really sacred stuff in an earthy, humorous but divine way...
listened to about half of chesteron's "orthodoxy" and was a blatant confused mess after it lol but I think personally I could definitely use a bit of his whimsy in regards to god's gifts and world for us, too often I'm obsessed with evil this or evil that
Hope someone knows where this can be read, GK Chesterton says, isolating God out of christian ethics, we start to worship the christian virtue without God, which I heard michael knowles reference and I don't know what this is written in ? But modern day his words are almost prophetic as the secular west deifies virtues like, inclusion, diversity, love, equality but God is removed from these ethics. I don't know what to read with these word from GKC ?
Haha, never read his stuff but I like him already. How about the part where Jesus arrives to the city as the messiah. The King of Kings and Lord of Lords arrives not on a mighty valiant steed but on a simple donkey. It's a funny image because you don't expect to see royalty much less the God of the universe ride into town on a simple creature. Its Like seeing a Saudi prince choosing to ride a 1976 AMC Pacer over a 458 Ferrari😂
@@JP2GiannaT I looked into it and I just find anti-Cath/prog sources that make that claim and then I also find more nuanced perspectives that he was actually less anti-S than many of his time and even praised the Js for a lot of their values
@@JP2GiannaT Chesterton wasn't an anti-Semite. He supported the foundation of Israel and had Jewish friends. The claim that he was an anti-Semite is peddled by people refusing to understand people in their historical context and with agendas of their own.
From what I understand, he did have some kind of condition, though I forgot the exact details.... Also, just to clarify, while he was often critical of big business, he was by no means a socialist. He wrote against socialism in many places. To give one example I particularly like, from his book "The Outline of Sanity" (written in 1926): "....it is silly of Socialists to complain of our saying that it must be a destruction of liberty. It is almost equally silly of Anti-Socialists to complain of the unnatural and unbalanced brutality of the Bolshevist Government in crushing a political opposition. A Socialist Government is one which in its nature does not tolerate any true and real opposition. For there the Government provides everything; and it is absurd to ask a Government to provide an opposition. "You cannot go to the Sultan and say reproachfully, 'You have made no arrangements for your brother dethroning you and seizing the Caliphate.' You cannot go to a medieval king and say, 'Kindly lend me two thousand spears and one thousand bowmen, as I wish to raise a rebellion against you.'' Still less can you reproach a Government which professes to set up everything, because it has not set up anything to pull down all it has set up. Opposition and rebellion depend on property and liberty. They can only be tolerated where other rights have been allowed to strike root, besides the central right of the ruler. Those rights must be protected by a morality which even the ruler will hesitate to defy. The critic of the State can only exist where a religious sense of right protects his claims to his own bow and spear; or at least, to his own pen or his own printing-press. It is absurd to suppose that he could borrow the royal pen to advocate regicide or use the Government printing-presses to expose the corruption of the Government. Yet it is the whole point of Socialism, the whole case for Socialism, that unless all printing-presses are Government printing-presses, printers may be oppressed. Everything is staked on the State's justice; it is putting all the eggs in one basket. Many of them will be rotten eggs; but even then you will not be allowed to use them at political elections."
I honestly don't know where I'd be, as a Catholic, without Chesterton.
@@BrianHoldsworth Same for me. And I am a cradle Catholic (sort of a nominal one before true conversion)…
When I had fallen away from practicing in college I don't know how but I found a copy of Orthodoxy in the library. Helped inspire the intellectual Catholic in me
Pity your god couldn't write his own book that explains everything he wanted us to know and left the hard work to godsplainers.
I love your channel Brian!
@@kevinkelly2162kevin you spend a lot of time on this channel bud
He was the greatest gentleman in England, for when he stood up to give a woman his seat, three could now sit down.
@@Sousabird He was jollymaxxing
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He's quite popular in Poland too. Mostly of the quote that goes "I judged Poles by their enemies. And I found out that their enemies were the enemies of magnanimity and manhood"
Chestertons writtings, specifically “The Everlasting Man” were some of the central parts of helping me convert to the One True Church. Thank God for Chesterton.
It was orthodoxy that did it for me
Chesterton, together with Augustine, St. John Paul II, and Fr. Richard John Neuhaus all played a role in bringing me, as a Lutheran, home to my Mother, the Church. May I one day have a chance to say thank you to each of them in Heaven.
Read Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man. You will never see the world, and how its Creator may well see it Himself, the same.
“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” - G.K. Chesterton
“As each one has received a gift, employ it in serving one another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God- whoever speaks, as one speaking the oracles of God; whoever serves, as one serving by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory and might forever and ever. Amen.” (1 Peter 4:10-11 LSB)
“His humour was of the kind I like best - not “jokes” imbedded in the page like currants in a cake, still less (what I cannot endure), a general tone of flippancy and jocularity, but the humour which is not in any way separable from the argument but is rather (as Aristotle would say) the “bloom” on dialectic itself. The sword glitters not because the swordsman set out to make it glitter but because he is fighting for his life and therefore moving it very quickly. For the critics who think Chesterton frivolous or “paradoxical” I have to work hard to feel even pity; sympathy is out of the question. Moreover, strange as it may seem, I liked him for his goodness.”
-C.S. Lewis
The Father Brown stories gave 🔥 quotes like " you attacked Reason - its bad theology" & "humility is the mother of giants".
Chesterton's writings certainly helped my reversion to faith. Thank God for his wit and wonder!
I have just started one of his books (Orthodoxy) and it’s blowing my mind.
I, too, LOVE G.K. Chesterton!
Thank You Father Pine!
I think its very funny for me that i just started reading Orthodoxy yesterday and then i see you uploaded this video.
As a self proclaimed Protestant, Orthodoxy by GKC has been one of my favorite books from college into manhood, and I’ve gone on to look up or read everything he wrote I can get my hands on. Even if it’s a piece of fiction that he might’ve read I want to know what he thought.
Ironic title to the video, considering the fact that Chesterton wrote: "...we admire things with reasons, but we love them without reasons."
I just finished Heretics. And MY OH MY! Several times, I would read a sentence, and have to put the book down and digest the saying for a while. Many times, he says things that sounds so backwards but are so obviously true!
I owe one half of my conversion to Chesterton (the other half I owe to Fulton Sheen).
Before I read GKC I thought all Christians were either dumb or boring.
I was never happier to be proven so wrong in my life.
Thank you
Thank you so much! I read what felt accessible to me of Chesterton several years ago but your sharing him here has made me homesick for him. Your presentation of him is so reminiscent of my own experience. I will be rereading soon.
Thank you Father
My fav writer. So funny. Love the apologetics & essays
12:20 Ballad of the White Horse has a whole prologue about a holiday with his wife, which includes the line you mentioned.
Just started reading Chesterton's *Thomas Aquinas*
Thanks for speaking about Chesterton, Father. I’d heard of him, read a fiction book or two, and watched the Fr Brown films and TV series, but didn’t really appreciate the depth of his works till listening to this talk. Now I’m motivated to explore his various works.
BTW, the publication you were referring to was called the Illustrated London News.
Chesterton changed my life.
12:15 it was in the dedication of the Ballad of the White Horse, though it's not exactly a collection of poems.
I do like Chesterton very much, but if any novels were an influence on me becoming Catholic, not that I knew it at the time of reading, I'd say 'Brideshead' and 'Monseigneur Quixote' .
Joseph Pearce wrote in his book "Literary Catholics, Literary Converts":
"The most striking example of Chesterton's influence on Waugh is to be found in the way that Chesterton inspired 'Brideshead' Revisited, arguably the finest of Waugh's novels and undeniably one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. The novel's central theme of the redemption of lost souls by means of 'the unseen hook and invisible line...the twitch upon the thread' was taken from one of Chesterton's Father Brown stories. Waugh told a friend that he was anxious to obtain a copy of the omnibus edition of the Father Brown stories at the time he was putting the finishing touches to 'Brideshead', and a memorandum he wrote for MGM studios when a film version of the novel was being considered confirmed the profundity of Chesterton's influence:
" 'The Roman Catholic Church has the unique power of keeping remote control over human souls which have once been part of her. G.K. Chesterton has compared this to the fisherman's line, which allows the fish the illusion of free play in the water and yet has him by the hook; in his own time the fisherman by a "twitch upon the thread" draws the fish to land."
Love me some Father brown!
What I think is unfair is the Church is looking at everything this man did and wrote with a fine tooth comb, but others have been canonized a lot faster.
Unless martyrdom, then needs to be a 50-100 year eait before somebody is fully canonized.
He was right about devolving into original sin!
Has anyone read Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome K. Jerome? They were contemporaries and I get the same reverance-humility essence from the both. Really sacred stuff in an earthy, humorous but divine way...
Why do Americans love Chesterton so much more than we Brits? And why does Fr Pine wriggle so much?!
@@edwardbell9795 same reason in both cases - joy!
“Just going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a. car. ” - G. K. Chesterton
listened to about half of chesteron's "orthodoxy" and was a blatant confused mess after it lol
but I think personally I could definitely use a bit of his whimsy in regards to god's gifts and world for us, too often I'm obsessed with evil this or evil that
I can’t believe you were able to pare it down to just 5.
Peter dimond vs trent horn...book it.
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Hope someone knows where this can be read, GK Chesterton says, isolating God out of christian ethics, we start to worship the christian virtue without God, which I heard michael knowles reference and I don't know what this is written in ? But modern day his words are almost prophetic as the secular west deifies virtues like, inclusion, diversity, love, equality but God is removed from these ethics. I don't know what to read with these word from GKC ?
Didn't St. Thomas Aquinas have a weight problem toward the end of his life? Did not affect his canonization.
@@bethmcmullan7686 probably some issue with gout.
They should invent some sort of video editing device
If GKC was a priest, you get Fr. Brown.
Thought it was TR. 😂
Me too at first!
TR was a great admirer of Chesterton :-) (I'm assuming by TR you mean Theodore Roosevelt)
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Haha, never read his stuff but I like him already. How about the part where Jesus arrives to the city as the messiah. The King of Kings and Lord of Lords arrives not on a mighty valiant steed but on a simple donkey. It's a funny image because you don't expect to see royalty much less the God of the universe ride into town on a simple creature. Its Like seeing a Saudi prince choosing to ride a 1976 AMC Pacer over a 458 Ferrari😂
The only stain I've seen on Chesteron is his call for dec0lonlzation that had tragic outcomes for regular people across the world
@@valuedCustomer2929 That and his economic views. Distributism is literally just socialism rebranded for a catholic audience.
And his anti-Semitism.
The man was undeniably brilliant. Unfortunately, he did have some flaws.
@@JP2GiannaT I looked into it and I just find anti-Cath/prog sources that make that claim and then I also find more nuanced perspectives that he was actually less anti-S than many of his time and even praised the Js for a lot of their values
@@JP2GiannaT Chesterton wasn't an anti-Semite. He supported the foundation of Israel and had Jewish friends. The claim that he was an anti-Semite is peddled by people refusing to understand people in their historical context and with agendas of their own.
@@hellebartelsen8208 He's antisemite because he wants england to be english and was speaking out over the overt power of the jews in england.
My only problems with Chesterton is his gluttony (or maybe it was a medical condition?) and that he was a socialist.
I'm not sure, but as I remember Chesterton wasn't socialist. He was a distributist.
From what I understand, he did have some kind of condition, though I forgot the exact details....
Also, just to clarify, while he was often critical of big business, he was by no means a socialist. He wrote against socialism in many places. To give one example I particularly like, from his book "The Outline of Sanity" (written in 1926):
"....it is silly of Socialists to complain of our saying that it must be a destruction of liberty. It is almost equally silly of Anti-Socialists to complain of the unnatural and unbalanced brutality of the Bolshevist Government in crushing a political opposition. A Socialist Government is one which in its nature does not tolerate any true and real opposition. For there the Government provides everything; and it is absurd to ask a Government to provide an opposition.
"You cannot go to the Sultan and say reproachfully, 'You have made no arrangements for your brother dethroning you and seizing the Caliphate.' You cannot go to a medieval king and say, 'Kindly lend me two thousand spears and one thousand bowmen, as I wish to raise a rebellion against you.'' Still less can you reproach a Government which professes to set up everything, because it has not set up anything to pull down all it has set up. Opposition and rebellion depend on property and liberty. They can only be tolerated where other rights have been allowed to strike root, besides the central right of the ruler. Those rights must be protected by a morality which even the ruler will hesitate to defy. The critic of the State can only exist where a religious sense of right protects his claims to his own bow and spear; or at least, to his own pen or his own printing-press. It is absurd to suppose that he could borrow the royal pen to advocate regicide or use the Government printing-presses to expose the corruption of the Government. Yet it is the whole point of Socialism, the whole case for Socialism, that unless all printing-presses are Government printing-presses, printers may be oppressed. Everything is staked on the State's justice; it is putting all the eggs in one basket. Many of them will be rotten eggs; but even then you will not be allowed to use them at political elections."
He spent much of his public correspondence ridiculing his friend George Bernard Shaw for being a socialist.
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