Category: Engaging the Culture

“You give the last piece of pie to God, who doesn’t eat pie, by giving it to your neighbor, who does.”

Chesterton Calvinism, pp. 60-61

“We affirm a fundamental creational loyalty to the world, and constantly thwart the world’s desire to be disloyal to itself. This is why it is good to be earthy, and bad to be worldly.”

Chestertonian Calvinism, p. 58

“The pacifist who doesn’t want to fight the dragon for the sake of the lady is actually in the process of becoming a dragon himself.”

Chestertonian Calvinism, p. 57

“There seems to be an inverse relationship between the number of footnotes that Chesterton uses and the number of footnotes he is in.”

Chestertonian Calvinism, p. 55

“What we must do is receive all God’s covenantal blessings, as thick as we can conceive of them, and then imagine how much thicker Heaven will be. Let Jesus cut the bacon, in other words.”

Chestertonian Calvinism, p. 49

“If I turn every gift that God gives over in my hands suspiciously, looking for the idol trap, then I am not rejoicing before Him the way I ought to be . . . This world competes with the eternal things, and so what we think we must do is get a five-gallon bucket of dour paint thinner and pour it over all our material possessions. We try to make Heaven thick by making earth thin.”

Chestertonian Calvinism, pp. 48-49