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dreadful-luck · 9 months

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Some splatfest art! (And a little silly funny haha too)

(Btw click on the first image to see the full thing. It’s not badly cropped it’s just weird)

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fictionadventurer · 2 months

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Controversial opinion: I love romances that involve love at first sight and think there should be more stories that feature it. It's perfectly fine for someone to feel an intense and immediate connection with someone. It's romantic to suddenly have your world upended by one glance at another person. They can still get to know each other later. Or they can be the type of person who's willing to take responsibility and use the strength of that immediate connection to care for the other person. There's a lot of potential in the trope that gets overlooked.

#g.k. chesterton totally upended my worldview #adventures in writing

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thoughtkick · 2 months

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Successful people are not gifted. They just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

G.K. Nielson

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thehopefulquotes · 16 days

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Successful people are not gifted. They just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

G.K. Nielson

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apesoformythoughts · 4 months

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“I know that [eugenics] numbers many disciples whose intentions are entirely innocent and humane; and who would be sincerely astonished at my describing it as I do. But that is only because evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.”

— G.K. Chesterton: Eugenics and Other Evils

#g.k. chesterton #eaoe #evil

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quotefeeling · 6 months

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Successful people are not gifted. They just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

G.K. Nielson

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resqectable · 7 days

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Successful people are not gifted. They just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

G.K. Nielson

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perfectquote · 2 months

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Successful people are not gifted. They just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

G.K. Nielson

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perfectfeelings · 6 months

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Successful people are not gifted. They just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

G.K. Nielson

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momentsbeforemass · 4 months

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The best argument against Christianity

One of the saddest things in ministry is finding out why someone left.

Why someone turned away from your church. Or worse, turned away from God.

It’s humbling and heartbreaking. All in the same moment.

Because it usually comes down to one of two things.

One, as they see it, God didn’t do something. Or God allowed something terrible to happen.

Which means that we (official church people, parents, other teachers of the faith, etc.) have failed them. By leaving them with a defective understanding of God and God’s love for them. Setting them up to have exactly this happen, when they hit the hard things in life.

Or two, someone they understood to be a Christian said or did something that so completely repulsed them that they (understandably) want nothing to do with the Faith.

This is the more subtle one. And it’s because of something that Jesus points out in today’s Gospel, “You are the light of the world. A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden.”

Translation – as followers of Christ, you and I are always visible. There is no time when what we say or do does not reflect back on God. There is no time when what we say or do does not impact someone’s understanding of God.

You and I may not intend to teach the Faith. But rest assured that every waking moment, you and I are teaching the Faith to someone.

Whether we know it or not, someone is looking at what we say, what we do, what we post online, and saying to themselves, “that’s what Christians do.”

That time that you treated the clerk like a thing, and not like a person? Someone saw that and said, “that’s what Christians do.”

That “just for fun” repost of nasty stuff about the people whose politics you disagree with? Someone saw that and said, “that’s what Christians do.”

When you and I let that be our witness? It should be no surprise that they want nothing to do with us or our Faith.

“The best argument against Christianity is Christians.” – G.K. Chesterton

Today’s Readings

#Witness #Faith #Lived Faith #Against Christianity #G.K. Chesterton #God #Jesus #Catholic #Christian #Church #Moments Before Mass

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dreadful-luck · 5 months

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I updated my banner!

#oc #pixel art #my art #dreadful #dreadful luck #G.K #veji

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themaninthegreenshirt · 1 year

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"A people that forgets its ancestors will care little for its descendants."

G.K. Chesterton

#g.k. chesterton #gk chesterton #quotes #politics #philosophy #writers #reactionary #history #heritage

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fictionadventurer · 5 months

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"but my regret here is not quite as bad as my regret that we never got chesterton-penned star trek"

No offense, but I don't think Gene Roddenbury would have been caught dead letting a devout Catholic like Chesterton into Star Trek.

H.G. Wells brought him in. Under a pen name. Gene didn't know it was Chesterton until after it became everyone's favorite episode of all time.

#answered asks #star trek #g.k. chesterton

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francesderwent · 1 year

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But is the comfortable doctrine...that we are all inevitably mild. We cannot be monsters of vice. We need not be monsters of virtue. And everyone loses sight of the true and terrible and inspiriting doctrine—the old doctrine that unless we strive every instant to be monsters of virtue, we ourselves may easily be monsters of vice. There is nothing nearer to us than madness; as every man knows who recalls some one moment of his life. “Inhuman monsters do not really exist, except in fairy-tales”! There are plenty of inhuman monsters in the modern world; inhuman monsters control commerce and rule continents. The only real difference between fairy-tale and modern fact is this: that in fairy-tales the monsters are fought. That is one of the very many superiorities of fairy-tales.

--G.K. Chesterton, Illustrated London News, February 3, 1906

#g.k. chesterton #dare I say very teen wolf of him??

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apesoformythoughts · 2 months

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“In one letter [to Frances, Chesterton] signs himself as ‘always your own adoring nuisance,’ adding as a postscript: ‘By the way,—I love you. I thought the fact might interest you.’”

— Ian Ker: G. K. Chesterton: A Biography

#g.k. chesterton #Ian ker #writers

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quotefeeling · 9 months

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Successful people are not gifted. They just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

G.K. Nielson

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