John Howting

@howtingmi

The mere man on two legs, as such, should be felt as something more heartbreaking than any music and more startling than any caricature. -GKC

Joined June 2013

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    Jan 29

    Chesterton's works digitized--for you! American Chesterton Society 2018. Click to Donate: via

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    Jan 26

    Working with for a healthier, happier, and holier Photos: acceptance of Golden Broom Award in recognition of outstanding maintenance of the historic campus.

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    Jan 26

    A poet should not defend his poem, but he should always defend his theory of poetry; or his theory of anything.

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    Jan 25

    Europe was Christendom: it was the society of Christian peoples which for a thousand years, more or less, had been moulded by the same religious and intellectual influences until it possessed a consciousness of spiritual community which transcended political and racial limits.

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    Jan 25

    The Christian Church can best be defined as an enormous private detective, correcting that official detective—the State.

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    EU funded CBI backs fat cats against consumers

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    Jan 23

    Here is the full Chesterton quote (aka Chesterton's Fence) that Justice Neil Gorsuch of SCOTUS made reference to yesterday in his dissenting opinion on "Artis v. D.C.". —Editor

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    In evidence to the Brexit Committee ridiculed the useless Bank of England forecasts on the consequences of a vote to leave. Too polite to say they were politically motivated.

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    Jan 22

    Our conference webpage is live and registration is open! Join us in August in FL!

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    Jan 12

    Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason. This is so not merely in the sense of insanity but of suicide. It has lost its reason; that is its reason for existing.

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    Jan 11

    We do not want, as the newspapers say, a Church that will move with the world. We want a Church that will move the world.

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    Jan 9

    The Family is not only an institution, but a foundation, the foundation of nearly all foundations.

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    I am sure I shall see the Lord’s goodness in the land of the living. Hope in him, hold firm and take heart. Hope in the Lord! (From Psalm 27)

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    Jan 3

    Democracy does not rest on the majority, but on the people. The majority is a necessary mechanism for the solution of certain difficulties. But the people is a positive and permanent thing which can be seen as a whole.

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    Run to Mary. She will intercede for you.

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    Jan 1

    I generally make my New Year resolutions somewhere towards the end of May.

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    Jan 1

    The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes.

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    Make the Beatitudes your New Year's resolution.

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