“The world of St. Thomas is one in which it is wonderful to be born...It is a sacred world, impregnated to its inmost fibers with the intimate presence of a God whose supreme existence saves it constantly from nothingness. To have crossed the threshold of this enchanted universe is to be no longer able to live in any other.” (Etienne Gilson)
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Sacramental Worldview of St. Thomas
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"I have explained that fairy tales founded in me two convictions; first, that the world is a wild and startling place, which might have been quite different, but which is quite delightful; second, that before this wildness and delight one may well be modest and submit to the queerest limitations of so queer a kindness...Now the mere repetition made the things to me rather more weird than more rational. It was as if, having seen a curiously shaped nose in the street and dismissed it as an accident, I had then seen six other noses of the same astonishing shape. I should have fancied for a moment that it must be some secret society. So one elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot." G.K. Chesterton
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