Sunday, December 24, 2017

Quote of the Day (G.K. Chesterton, on the Birth of Jesus as ‘Winter Fire for the Unfortunate’)



“Anyone thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not merely a summer sun of the prosperous but a winter fire for the unfortunate.”—English man of letters and Catholic convert G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936), The New Jerusalem (1920)

The image accompanying this post, Nativity, was created in 1603 by the Spanish Renaissance painter, sculptor and architect El Greco (1541-1614).

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