http://augustine.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] augustine.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] christianreader 2009-09-04 12:50 am (UTC)

Supposedly he said that. lol. :-)

For anyone else who might be unaware:

When the London Times asked a number of writers for essays on the topic "What's Wrong with the World" Chesterton sent in the reply shortest and most to the point:

Dears Sirs,

I am.

Sincerely yours,

G.K. Chesterton


(Forward by Philip Yancey to an edition of Chesterton's Orthodoxy)

Anyway, seriously, the book is a very good book in many ways. Besides having some great quotes (such as couple of Chesterton's most famous: "The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried" and "if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly"), it has some very thought provoking material.

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