Ryan Whitaker Smith
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“The truth is that there is an alliance between religion and real fun, of which the modern thinkers have never got the key, and which they are quite unable to criticize or to destroy. All Socialist Utopias, all new pagan Paradises, promised in this age to mankind have all one horrible fault. They are all dignified…. But being undignified is the essence of all real happiness, whether before God or man. Hilarity involves humility; nay, it involves humiliation…. Religion is much nearer to riotous happiness than it is to the detached and temperate types of happiness in which gentlemen and philosophers find their peace. Religion and riot are very near, as the history of all religions proves. Riot means being a rotter; and religion means knowing you are a rotter.”
― Winter Fire: Christmas with G.K. Chesterton
― Winter Fire: Christmas with G.K. Chesterton
“the worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.”3”
― Winter Fire: Christmas with G.K. Chesterton
― Winter Fire: Christmas with G.K. Chesterton
“Religion is interested not in whether a man is happy, but whether he is still alive, whether he can still react in a normal way to new things, whether he blinks in a blinding light or laughs when he is tickled. That is the best of Christmas, that it is a startling and disturbing happiness; it is an uncomfortable comfort.”
― Winter Fire: Christmas with G.K. Chesterton
― Winter Fire: Christmas with G.K. Chesterton
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