[Running On Empty]

I just today ran across these three great Chesterton quotes:

“it is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it”: from “The Proper Review of Machines”—1923. (think: internet today)

and

“None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia...have any power except over the people who choose to use them” (Daily News, July 21, 1906)

and

“It is always hard to correct the exaggeration without exaggerating the correction”-—from “The New Jerusalem”, chapter 5
( a great counsel for us on the religion forum :-) )

[Running On Empty]

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[Mad Dawg]

The last one is especially good! Wow!

It took me a little while to 'get' Chesterton. His is an unusual, at least to me, sort of musing wisdom, that throws itself out in rollicking essays and extravagantly worked metaphors, and then in pithy (be careful how you thay that) aphorisms.

I would say, "If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly," was one of the most important things I learned as a hospital chaplain.

But this one is a needed corrective and reminder that the need for the virtue of justice and the trait of judiciousness is always there.