Chesterton wrote extensively about this very topic. Albeit he explicitly references the Catholic Church here, I still think it applies to your video rather nicely: “It is a very different matter when a religion, in the real sense of a binding thing, binds men to their morality when it is not identical with their mood. It is very different when some of the saints preached social reconciliation to fierce and raging factions who could hardly bear the sight of each others’ faces. It was a very different thing when charity was preached to pagans who really did not believe in it; just as it is a very different thing now, when chastity is preached to new pagans who do not believe in it. It is in those cases that we get the real grapple of religion; and it is in those cases that we get the peculiar and solitary triumph of the Catholic faith. It is not in merely being right when we are right, as in being cheerful or hopeful or humane. It is in having been right when we were wrong, and in the fact coming back upon us afterwards like a boomerang. One word that tells us what we do not know outweighs a thousand words that tell us what we do know. And the thing is all the more striking if we not only did not know it but could not believe it. It may seem a paradox to say that the truth teaches us more by the words we reject than by the words we receive.” - G.K. Chesterton I sometimes find that I learn far more when I come across some rather ‘difficult’ passages of Scripture - or sections of theological thought - than when I come across topics I’d consider to be my “bread and butter.” Regardless of one’s religious convictions and notions, we all have topics that we will have to inevitably wrestle with. Eventually, one must come to rest in the peace of Christ, and recognize that we are feeble beings, and are incapable of invincible knowledge. Christ be with you, brother. ✝️
Beautiful stuff! Though I’m not of the Roman tradition. I have a deep profound appreciation for both Orthodoxy and Catholicism. (Catch my rosary and prayer rope behind me in upcoming content!)
Thank you heavenly Father for this wonderful message that we all need. 🙌❤️
Amen 🔥❤️ Thank You Lord Jesus
Catholic convert from Orthodoxy here. 😉
Solid video. Subbed!
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Chesterton wrote extensively about this very topic. Albeit he explicitly references the Catholic Church here, I still think it applies to your video rather nicely:
“It is a very different matter when a religion, in the real sense of a binding thing, binds men to their morality when it is not identical with their mood. It is very different when some of the saints preached social reconciliation to fierce and raging factions who could hardly bear the sight of each others’ faces. It was a very different thing when charity was preached to pagans who really did not believe in it; just as it is a very different thing now, when chastity is preached to new pagans who do not believe in it. It is in those cases that we get the real grapple of religion; and it is in those cases that we get the peculiar and solitary triumph of the Catholic faith. It is not in merely being right when we are right, as in being cheerful or hopeful or humane. It is in having been right when we were wrong, and in the fact coming back upon us afterwards like a boomerang. One word that tells us what we do not know outweighs a thousand words that tell us what we do know. And the thing is all the more striking if we not only did not know it but could not believe it. It may seem a paradox to say that the truth teaches us more by the words we reject than by the words we receive.”
- G.K. Chesterton
I sometimes find that I learn far more when I come across some rather ‘difficult’ passages of Scripture - or sections of theological thought - than when I come across topics I’d consider to be my “bread and butter.” Regardless of one’s religious convictions and notions, we all have topics that we will have to inevitably wrestle with. Eventually, one must come to rest in the peace of Christ, and recognize that we are feeble beings, and are incapable of invincible knowledge.
Christ be with you, brother. ✝️
Beautiful stuff! Though I’m not of the Roman tradition. I have a deep profound appreciation for both Orthodoxy and Catholicism.
(Catch my rosary and prayer rope behind me in upcoming content!)