Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged.
The title, Orthodoxy, is meant to avoid such sectarian questions..
He converted to Catholicism 14 years later.
The book was written when Chesterton was an Anglican.
He sees it as the answer to natural human needs, the answer to a riddle in his own words, and not simply as an arbitrary truth received from somewhere outside the boundaries of human experience.
In it, Chesterton presents an original view of Christian religion.
In the book\'s preface Chesterton states the purpose is to attempt an explanation, not of whether the Christian faith can be believed, but of how he personally has come to believe it.
Chesterton considered this book a companion to his other work, Heretics.
Chesterton that has become a classic of Christian apologetics.
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Chesterton, Orthodoxy Orthodoxy (1908) is a book by G. --- G.
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It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.
It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them.
It is possible that God says every morning, Do it again to the sun; and every evening, Do it again to the moon.
But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony.
For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony.
They always say, Do it again; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead.
Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged
