Gilbert Keith Chesterton blessed our world with his wealth of knowledge, and along with his close friend C.S. Lewis brought incredible insight into living a Christian life. So this week I leave you with some of Chesterton's wisdom, taken from an anthology of his work:
“Self-consciousness of necessity destroys self-revelation. A man who thinks a great deal about himself will try to be many-sided, attempt a theatrical excellence at all points, will try to be an encyclopedia of culture, and his own real personality will be lost in that false universalism. Thinking about himself will lead to trying to be the universe; trying to be the universe will lead to ceasing to be anything. If, on the other hand, a man is sensible enough to think only about the universe; he will think about it in his own individual way. He will keep virgin the secret of God; he will see the grass as no other man can see it, and look at a sun that no man has ever known."
---G.K. Chesterton
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