Indeed the Book of Job avowedly only answers mystery with mystery. Job is comforted with riddles; but he is comforted. Herein is indeed a type, in the sense of a prophecy, of things speaking with authority. For when he who doubts can only say, ‘I do not understand,’ it is true that he who knows can only reply or repeat ‘You do not understand.’ And under that rebuke there is always a sudden hope in the heart; and the sense of something that would be worth understanding.
Gilbert K. ChestertonExactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms him for a series of clear pictures to the idea that these limitless terrors had a limit, that these shapeless enemies have enemies in the knights of God, that there is something in the universe more mystical than darkness, and stronger than strong fear.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
Gilbert K. ChestertonAll true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThere is nothing so weak, for working purposes, as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.
Gilbert K. Chesterton