G.K. Chesterton Quote
Then, what, asked Turnbull, very slowly, as he softly picked a flower, what is the difference between Christ and Satan?It is quite simple, replied the Highlander. Christ descended into hell; Satan fell into it.Does it make much odds? asked the free-thinker.It makes all the odds, said the other. One of them wanted to go up and went down; the other wanted to go down and went up. A god can be humble, a devil can only be humbled.
G.K. Chesterton
Then, what, asked Turnbull, very slowly, as he softly picked a flower, what is the difference between Christ and Satan?It is quite simple, replied the Highlander. Christ descended into hell; Satan fell into it.Does it make much odds? asked the free-thinker.It makes all the odds, said the other. One of them wanted to go up and went down; the other wanted to go down and went up. A god can be humble, a devil can only be humbled.
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About G.K. Chesterton
Chesterton created the fictional priest-detective Father Brown, and wrote on apologetics. Even some of those who disagree with him have recognised the wide appeal of such works as Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man. Chesterton routinely referred to himself as an orthodox Christian, and came to identify this position more and more with Catholicism, eventually converting from high church Anglicanism. Biographers have identified him as a successor to such Victorian authors as Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, John Henry Newman and John Ruskin.
He has been referred to as the "prince of paradox". Of his writing style, Time observed: "Whenever possible, Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out." His writings were an influence on Jorge Luis Borges, who compared his work with that of Edgar Allan Poe.