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My Name Is Lazarus: 34 Stories of Converts Whose Path to Rome Was Paved by G. K. Chesterton QUOTES

1 " can’t remember the third! “In Defense of Rash Vows” was so appropriate. Susan and I had exchanged our marriage vows less than five months before. Chesterton wrote: “The man who makes a vow makes an appointment with himself at some distant time or place. The danger of it is that he may not keep the appointment. "

― Dale Ahlquist , My Name Is Lazarus: 34 Stories of Converts Whose Path to Rome Was Paved by G. K. Chesterton

2 " All Christianity concentrates on the man at the cross-roads. The vast and shallow philosophies, the huge syntheses of humbug, all talk about ages and evolution and ultimate developments. The true philosophy is concerned with the instant. Will a man take this road or that? "

― Dale Ahlquist , My Name Is Lazarus: 34 Stories of Converts Whose Path to Rome Was Paved by G. K. Chesterton

3 " Paradox is not just a logician’s art. It is every man’s tool to understand the real world we inhabit for a short time, and how it shapes our everlasting life. Paradox is a tool so common that a carpenter once used it to explain the depth of our existence. "

― Dale Ahlquist , My Name Is Lazarus: 34 Stories of Converts Whose Path to Rome Was Paved by G. K. Chesterton

4 " There is the striking chapter on “The Five Deaths of the Faith” near the end of The Everlasting Man, arguably Chesterton’s masterpiece, in which he declares that “Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave. "

― Dale Ahlquist , My Name Is Lazarus: 34 Stories of Converts Whose Path to Rome Was Paved by G. K. Chesterton

5 " Increasingly I perceived myself as being neither on the left nor the right but as believing in a distinct “third position,” mistrustful of big government of whatever political hue, which I perceived in the Orwellian sense as being Big Brother, the crusher of freedom. "

― Dale Ahlquist , My Name Is Lazarus: 34 Stories of Converts Whose Path to Rome Was Paved by G. K. Chesterton

6 " The other is to walk round the whole world till we come back to the same place… in other words, the next best thing to being really inside Christendom is to be really outside it. And a particular point of it is that the popular critics of Christianity are not really outside it. "

― Dale Ahlquist , My Name Is Lazarus: 34 Stories of Converts Whose Path to Rome Was Paved by G. K. Chesterton