In going through the study notes for Crazy Love I came across these words from G.K. Chesterton:
A child kicks its legs rhythmically through excess, not absence of life.
Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit, fierce & free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged.
They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead.
For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony.
But perhaps God is strong enough....
Is it possible that God says every morning, "Do it again," to the sun
and every evening "Do it again", to the moon.
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 may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned & grown old, and our Father is younger than we.
1 comment:
This is my absolute favourite quote of G.K. Chesterton. I never tire of it.
:)
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