That which is timeless is also the most timely.
For Tolkien, Catholicism was not an opinion to which one subscribed but a reality to which one submitted. Quite simply, pseudo-psychology aside, Tolkien remained a Catholic for the simple if disarming...
Gandalf’s very last words are unequivocal and could not be starker or plainer: Be good, take care of yourselves—and DON’T LEAVE THE PATH! Here we see Gandalf as the archetypal father-figure advising h...
He could not write what he wanted, but what he had to.
Gollum is, however, a fully embodied image of the sin addict’s soul. He brings to life with monstrous vigor the words of Christ that everyone who sins is a slave to sin10 and the teaching of St. Paul...
My descent into delinquency was aided and abetted by the progressive philosophy adopted by the school. No effort was made to impose discipline, which resulted in the triumph of anarchy in the classroo...
Hatred and bigotry, both of which are the bitter fruits of pride, are self-encapsulating prisons, locking the intellect within the constraining confines of the self-centered ego. There is no way out o...
There was a Race Relations Act, supported by socialists and conservatives alike, which made the incitement of racial hatred a crime but there was no corresponding Class Relations Act making it illegal...
Las nuevas religiones se adaptan al mundo nuevo en cierto modo; éste es su defecto más condenable...
In the absence of virtue and wisdom, intelligence becomes a servant of evil.
To go to seances with good intentions is like holding a smoking concert in a powder-magazine on behalf of an orphan asylum.’4
Pienso, como pensaba Cecil, que la lucha por la familia, por los ciudadanos libres y por todo lo decente ha de librarse hoy día desde la sección combativa del cristianismo.
And here is the paradox at the heart of the Christian life: The one who embraces suffering, who dies to himself in order to die for others, is actually happier than the one who shuns suffering and who...
When Belloc said that the Protestant Reformation was the shipwreck of Christendom, he was simply stating a historical fact, but it was controversial because history is political.
I was still very much embroiled in the racist politics of the National Front, living a double-life in which I wrote hate-filled propaganda during the day and read the love-filled pages of Chesterton a...
Every evil design that is meant by the evil characters will ultimately serve the greater good that is meant by God. Bilbo is meant to find the Ring by the Ring’s Master (Sauron) but at the same time h...
In reading Chesterton I was undermining my own most dearly held prejudices.
For Chesterton and Tolkien, the goodness, truth, and beauty of fairy stories are to be found in the way they judge the way things are from the perspective of the way things ought to be. The should jud...
Chesterton entiende perfectamente que en nuestra religión el Misterio está indisolublemente unido a la Evidencia, y las respuestas eternas, a las exigencias más apremiantes y actuales. Chesterton es e...
But in later life Chesterton made no secret of the fact that he didn’t care for institutionalised learning, describing education as ‘being instructed by somebody I did not know about something I did n...
