Quote of the Day (G.K. Chesterton, on How Christians Must ‘Go Gaily in the Dark’)

“The gates of heaven are lightly locked,

We do not guard our gold,

Men may uproot where worlds begin,

Or read the name of the nameless sin;

But if he fail or if he win

To no good man is told. The men of the East may spell the stars,

And times and triumphs mark,

But the men signed of the cross of Christ

Go gaily in the dark. . .

“I tell you naught for your comfort,

Yea, naught for your desire,

Save that the sky grows darker yet

And the sea rises higher.

“Night shall be thrice night over you,

And heaven an iron cope.

Do you have joy without a cause,

Yea, faith without a hope?”—British man of letters (and Roman Catholic convert) G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936), “The Ballad of the White Horse” (1911)