Tag: Chrestomathy

“If Adam had not fallen, would he have been under any obligation to say ‘thank you’ to God? And when Jesus was obeying His Father, even to the point of the cross, was He doing so in faith? If He was doing so in faith, then that means the problem with the first Adam was his unbelief, and not an action that brought about raw demerit.”

The Auburn Avenue Chronicles, p. 8

“How else would it be possible for a generation of young people to adopt the worldview and outlook of the ruling elites, all the major corporations, virtually every university on the continent, all the major media outlets, the top brass at the Pentagon, and still have the unvarnished nerve to think of themselves as the resistance.”

Chestertonian Calvinism, p. 67

“A lot of confusion results from theologians treating plot problems as though they were math problems. But Nicodemus was a card-carrying member of the Sanhedrin, the body which condemned Jesus. And Judas was a card-carrying member of the Twelve.”

The Auburn Avenue Chronicles, p. 5

“You don’t identify the poseur by which pose he is copping, but rather by the participle, by the act of posing itself. A poseur can be smiling or glowering for any number of cameras. He might be a New Testament scholar, a gym rat, a hipster, a poet, or a smooth ladies’ man. He might be any number of things. We do not identify him by the costume he is wearing, but rather by the fact that he always has one eye on the lookout for a camera or a mirror.”

Chestertonian Calvinism, pp. 64-65

“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