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To live a creative life we must loose our fear of being wrong.

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growing up is about growing in wisdom and virtue and learning to curtail our selfishness so that we can give ourselves more selflessly to others.

Bilbo's Journey: Discovering the Hidden Meaning in "The Hobbit" Quotes

For the Christian, every man is homo viator, whose sole purpose (and soul’s purpose) is to travel through the adventure of life with the goal of getting to heaven, his ultimate and only true home, facing many perils and temptations along the way. The enemy of homo viator is homo superbus (proud man), who refuses the self-sacrifice that the adventure of life demands and seeks to build a home for himself within his “self.” Such a man becomes addicted to the sins that bind him, shriveling and shrinking to the pathetic size of his gollumized self. The drama of life revolves around this battle within each of us, between the homo viator we are called to be, and the homo superbus we are tempted to become. This drama is mirrored in Middle-earth in the struggles between selflessness and selfishness within the hearts of hobbits and men.

Frodo's Journey: Discover the Hidden Meaning of The Lord of the Rings Quotes

Gandalf’s very last words are unequivocal and could not be starker or plainer: “Be good, take care of yourselves—and DON’T LEAVE THE PATH!” Here we see Gandalf as the archetypal father-figure advising his children as they embark on a journey on which he cannot be present to watch over them that they should be good, be careful, and don’t do anything stupid! The advice is, however, charged with Christian moral guidance, which the everyday language might obscure if we are not paying due attention. Being good, i.e. virtuous, is the prerequisite for success, whereas taking care implies the need to practice the cardinal virtues of prudence and temperance. Most importantly, the emphatic exhortation that they should not, under any circumstances, leave the path reminds the Christian of the words of Christ: Enter ye in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there are who go in thereat. (Matthew 7:13)

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There was a Race Relations Act, supported by socialists and conservatives alike, which made the incitement of racial hatred a crime but there was no corresponding Class Relations Act making it illegal to incite class hatred.

Race With the Devil: My Journey from Racial Hatred to Rational Love Quotes

For Chesterton and Tolkien, the goodness, truth, and beauty of fairy stories are to be found in the way they judge the way things are from the perspective of the way things ought to be. The should judges the is. This is the way things ought to be. We do not condone selfishness merely because it is normal, nor should we. A healthy perspective always judges selfishness—most especially our own selfishness—from the perspective of selflessness. In the language of religion, we always judge sin from the perspective of virtue, that which is wrong from the perspective of that which is right. Fairy stories share with religion the belief in objective morality, which is the fruit of the knowledge of the union of the natural with the supernatural and therefore the communion of the one with the other. This moral perspective is condemned by the materialist and the relativist, which is why such people are equally skeptical of the respective value of fairy stories and religion, seeing both as intrinsically untrue.

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Pienso, como pensaba Cecil, que la lucha por la familia, por los ciudadanos libres y por todo lo decente ha de librarse hoy día desde la sección combativa del cristianismo.

G. K. Chesterton. Sabiduría e inocencia Quotes

In the absence of virtue and wisdom, intelligence becomes a servant of evil.

Bilbo's Journey: Discovering the Hidden Meaning in "The Hobbit" Quotes

Las nuevas religiones se adaptan al mundo nuevo en cierto modo; éste es su defecto más condenable...

G. K. Chesterton. Sabiduría e inocencia Quotes

It just so happened that they agreed on politics and religion. It was precisely that agreement that has caused most observers to associate them with one another.

Old Thunder: A Life of Hilaire Belloc Quotes

As a champion of the Church Militant in a hostile secular society, Belloc would sometimes exhibit a siege mentality akin to the defiance of Pius IX.

Old Thunder: A Life of Hilaire Belloc Quotes

Every evil design that is meant by the evil characters will ultimately serve the greater good that is meant by God. Bilbo is meant to find the Ring by the Ring’s Master (Sauron) but at the same time he is meant to find it by the One God who is the ultimate Master of the Master. It is on this deepest level of what is meant that we discover the deepest meaning in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

Bilbo's Journey: Discovering the Hidden Meaning in "The Hobbit" Quotes

After we have made the comparison between the malicious and destructive “cleverness” of the goblins and the gentle and genteel simplicity of the hobbits, we will perceive that the conflict in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings between those who serve the Shadow and those who walk in the Light, between trolls, goblins, and dragons on the one side, and hobbits, dwarves, and elves on the other, is a battle between two civilizations, the culture of death and the culture of life, which is closer to home than we might at first realize.

Bilbo's Journey: Discovering the Hidden Meaning in "The Hobbit" Quotes

Those who are open and alive, guided by the light of humility, will be blessed with the spiritual poverty with which they will inherit the kingdom of heaven; those who are blinded by the darkness of pride will be cursed with the material wealth with which they will purchase their ticket to hell. Such an understanding of reality, common to the elves of Rivendell and the Franciscans of Assisi, animates the whole moral atmosphere and literary dynamic of The Hobbit.

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Antes de llegar al catolicismo, pasé por diferentes etapas de lo que fue una lucha larga y duradera. Es difícil explicar con detalle las distintas fases. Tras estudiar y reflexionar detenidamente, llegué a la conclusión de que los males que sufría Inglaterra, capitalismo, imperialismo brutal, industrialismo, fortunas ilícitas y destrucción de la familia eran consecuencia de que Inglaterra no fuera católica. La tesis anglocatólica da por supuesto que Inglaterra siguió siendo católica a pesar de la reforma o por su causa incluso.

G. K. Chesterton. Sabiduría e inocencia Quotes

if in order to live it is necessary not to live, then what’s it all for?

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And here is the paradox at the heart of the Christian life: The one who embraces suffering, who dies to himself in order to die for others, is actually happier than the one who shuns suffering and who puts himself above all else.

Bilbo's Journey: Discovering the Hidden Meaning in "The Hobbit" Quotes

In this embrace of suffering, even unto death, Bilbo is encapsulating the whole idea of life being a cross that we are called to carry willingly and indeed enthusiastically. Life is not about the pursuit of creature comforts and taking the paths of least resistance. It is about Love, which can be defined as willingly laying down our lives for others.

Bilbo's Journey: Discovering the Hidden Meaning in "The Hobbit" Quotes

At the Battle of Five Armies, as it became known, the men of the Lake fight with long swords whereas the goblins wield scimitars. This places the battle symbolically as a clash between Christendom and the Infidel, the forces of goodness wielding the broad swords of the Christian crusaders whilst the forces of darkness fight with the curved swords of Islam. The same symbolism is employed in The Lord of the Rings, in which orcs are armed with scimitars whereas the men of Gondor fight with long swords.

Bilbo's Journey: Discovering the Hidden Meaning in "The Hobbit" Quotes

The war against the dragon is not, therefore, a war against a physical monster, like a dinosaur, but a battle against the wickedness we encounter in our everyday lives. We all face our daily dragons and we must all defend ourselves from them and hopefully slay them. The sobering reality is that we must either fight the dragons that we encounter in life or become dragons ourselves. There is no “comfortable” alternative.

Bilbo's Journey: Discovering the Hidden Meaning in "The Hobbit" Quotes

Chesterton entiende perfectamente que en nuestra religión el Misterio está indisolublemente unido a la Evidencia, y las respuestas eternas, a las exigencias más apremiantes y actuales. Chesterton es el hombre que ha abierto las puertas de par en par, que ha enviado a un mundo pálido y enfermo ríos de poemas, de alegría, de simpatía noble, de humor radiante e imponente, sacando todo ello de las inagotables fuentes de la ortodoxia. Su marcha hacia adelante supone la verificación de aquel dicho divino. «La verdad os hará libres».

G. K. Chesterton. Sabiduría e inocencia Quotes

Our theological antennae attuned to the clue being offered, we begin to see that the whole of The Hobbit is a figurative account of Bilbo’s baptism into the fullness of life. He had been “dead” when trying to preserve the life of creature comforts at Bag End, his home in the Shire, and needed to “die to himself,” laying down his life self-sacrificially for others, which is the hallmark and meaning of love, in order to find the fullness of life. He had to lose his life in order to gain it. He had to bury his old life of self-centerdness in order to be resurrected into the new life of adventure. He had to risk death in order to find life. In short and in sum, he needed a baptism of death-defying and life-giving grace.

Bilbo's Journey: Discovering the Hidden Meaning in "The Hobbit" Quotes

Gollum is, however, a fully embodied image of the sin addict’s soul. He brings to life with monstrous vigor the words of Christ that everyone who sins is a slave to sin10 and the teaching of St. Paul about the slavery of sin.11 As a mirror of scorn and pity toward man, he is so powerful that we only have to visualize Gollum as the shriveled wreck of our sin-enslaved soul to shiver in horror and disgust at the vision being presented to us. It’s as though the English language needs a new verb, to gollumize, so that we can express the grim and graphic reality of this vision of the reality of sin. It

Frodo's Journey: Discover the Hidden Meaning of The Lord of the Rings Quotes

He could not write what he wanted, but what he had to.

Old Thunder: A Life of Hilaire Belloc Quotes

There is, however, one other figurative representative of humanity in which we fail to recognize our own scornful and pitiful selves at our peril. That pathetic figure reflecting the readers back to themselves very uncomfortably is Gollum. Seldom or perhaps never in the field of human literature has the human soul in a state of addiction to sin been portrayed with such psychological realism and spiritual brilliance.

Frodo's Journey: Discover the Hidden Meaning of The Lord of the Rings Quotes

«Qué haríamos con dos millones (si los tuviéramos)», explica la diferencia entre los filántropos y los cristianos: «Los filántropos se los darían a los pobres que se lo merecieran, y los cristianos, a los pobres que no lo merecieran; porque si los cristianos fueran verdaderos cristianos, lo primero que pensarían es que ellos mismos constituían un ejemplo de ricos que no merecían serlo»

G. K. Chesterton. Sabiduría e inocencia Quotes

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